"Poetic wisdom, which was the primitive wisdom of paganism," says Vico in his Scienza Nuova, "must have begun with a metaphysic, not reasoned and abstract, like that of modern educated men, but felt and imagined, such as must have been that of primitive men.
"Poesi jakituria, jentilteriaren lehen jakituria izan zena-diosku bere Scienza Nuova-n-gaur pertsona doktrinatuena den metafisika arrazoitu eta abstraktutik barik, metafisika sentitu eta imajinatutik hasi bide zen, lehen gizonena zatekeen hura bezala...