Vico

Vico or de Vico may refer to:

  • Francesco de Vico, Italian astronomer
  • Francesco Vico, Baroque painter from Milan
  • Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist
  • Prefetti di Vico, Italian noble family
  • Vico, Corse-du-Sud, a French commune
  • Vico C, a Puerto Rican rapper
  • Lake Vico, a lake in northern Lazio, Italy
  • Vico Pancellorum a village close to Bagni di Lucca
  • 20103 de Vico, a main-belt asteroid
  • Comet de Vico, several comets discovered by Francesco de Vico
  • De Vico (crater), a lunar crater named after Francesco de Vico
  • Christopher Paul Neil, known by Interpol as Vico, convicted child molester
  • Vi-Co, the brand name of a chocolate malt drink

Famous quotes containing the word vico:

    “Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
    —Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)

    “Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.”
    —Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)

    “It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”
    —Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)