Vico

• Giambattista Vico (1669-1744), Neapolitan philosopher, developed a cyclic theory of history, which knows four reoccuring phases (divine, heroic, human, chaotic). This theory is applied to the image of the history of mankind as depicted in Earwicker's dream. The four phases also symbolize the four evangelists, the four points of the compass and the four provinces of Ireland.
• Father Francesco de Vico (1805 – 1848) was an Italian astronomer at Vatican Observatory, and also a Jesuit, who discovered a number of coments and made observations of Saturn and the gaps in its rings, and unsuccessfully attempted to determine the rotation period of Venus.
• There is a Vico Road in Dalkey.
• There is also a commune named Vico in the Corse-du-Sud département of France