For 10 points, name this work which argues for a staggeringly improving but fundamentally cyclical course of history, written in 1725 by Giambattista Vico.
This tome derides Desartes for implying that anything non-mathematical is an illusion and begins by explaining the difference between the true and the certain. The final section of this work labels an ancient author as a "man of the people" who was distinct from the idealized conception of the poet in the "Discovery of the True Homer." It says that pious shame is the origin of the moral stance of literature in "Poetic Wisdom" and opens with a universal history labeled "Establishment of Principles," after showing the feminine personification of metaphysics standing on a globe and looking at a triangle containing God's eye above a statue of a poet. For 10 points, name this work which argues for a staggeringly improving but fundamentally cyclical course of history, written in 1725 by Giambattista Vico.
This tome derides Desartes for implying that anything non-mathematical is an illusion and begins by explaining the difference between the true and the certain.
The New Science [or Scienza nuova]