From 1735 until his death he served as royal historiographer to the king of Naples.  
His magnum opus was the combination of several of his lesser works, including On the Study Methods of Our Time, The Art of Rhetoric, and 1732's On the Heroic Mind.  From 1735 until his death he served as royal historiographer to the king of Naples.  In his most famous work, he propounded a cyclical theory of history in which societies progress through a series of stages from barbarism to civilization and back to barbarism.  The three stages of this cycle included the Age of Gods, the Age of Heroes, and the Age of Men.  FTP, identify this 18th century Italian philosopher and author of the New Science.
His magnum opus was the combination of several of his lesser works, including On the Study Methods of Our Time, The Art of Rhetoric, and 1732's On the Heroic Mind.  
Giambattista Vico