For 10 points, name this Italian thinker who wrote The New Science.
In one lecture, this philosopher argued that man's quest for knowledge was driven by his desire to attain the heroic mind.  In one work, he claims that the ancient Italians were able to distinguish between human and divine knowledge and also analyzes the root verb, meaning "to gather," that is the basis for the concepts of reading and understanding.  In that essay, he also attacks the rationalism of Descartes by showing that the meaning of the words that represent thinking are derived from physical activity, a principle he termed (*) verum factum.  His autobiography, which recounts the importance of reading the classical poets and his interest in legal studies, is written in the third person, and he collected his lectures, given at the University of Naples, in The Art of Rhetoric.  His best known work postulates the divine, heroic, and human ages to formulate a cyclical theory of history.  For 10 points, name this Italian thinker who wrote The New Science.
In one lecture, this philosopher argued that man's quest for knowledge was driven by his desire to attain the heroic mind.  
Giambattista {Vico}