Thomas Goddard Bergin (1904-1987) was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University. Max Harold Fisch (1901-1995) was an internationally renowned scholar and recognized especially for his work on Charles S. Peirce and Giambattista Vico. Fisch received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1928.

This new edition of the famous Bergin and Fisch translation of Vico's Scienza nuova, originally published in 1948 and reissued in a revised edition in 1968, includes a translation of a piece of Vico's work called the Practica.... It is a great advantage to have [the "Practic of the New Science"] reprinted with the text of the New Science as it offers some of Vico's views on the application of his science.... Cornell University Press is to be congratulated for... this new full edition.(Review of Metaphysics)

• PrefaceBibliographic NoteAbbreviations and SignsIntroduction by Max Harold FischIDEA OF THE WORKBOOK ONE: ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINCIPLESBOOK TWO: POETIC WISDOMBOOK THREE: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMERBOOK FOUR: THE COURSE NATIONS RUNBOOK FIVE: THE RECOURSE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE NATIONS TAKE WHEN THEY RISE AGAINCONCLUSION OF THE WORKAppendix: "Practic of the New Science"Index of Names