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Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico, from an Italian postage stamp, 1968.
In 1699, Giambattista Vico obtained a chair of rhetoric at the University of Naples. As part of his duties in this position, he was responsible for delivering the introductory Latin orations to open the academic year between 1699 and 1708.1
Although Vico later sought a more prestigious and better-paid chair of law, he was unsuccessful in obtaining that position.1