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Count Francesco Algarotti (11
December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an
Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art
critic and art collector...
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Vittorio Algarotti (1533-1604), was born in Verona,
Republic of Venice, and was
president of the
Verona College of
Medicine from 1593
through his death...
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philosopher Francesco Algarotti, and they were both infatuated.
Frederick planned to make him a count.
Challenged by
Algarotti that
northern Europeans...
- and the university.
Writing for a
growing female audience,
Francesco Algarotti published Il
Newtonianism per le dame,
which was a
tremendously po****r...
- River, he
founded Saint Petersburg, a city
famously dubbed by
Francesco Algarotti as the "window to the West". In 1712,
Peter relocated the
capital from...
- are his view of the
interior of the
Pantheon (on
behalf of
Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of
picture galleries containing views of Rome...
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friend of some of the
leading authors of his times: Voltaire,
Francesco Algarotti,
Vincenzo Monti and
Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume...
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Lauro Gaspare Corniani degli Algarotti (1767-1827) was an
Italian writer of
novels and librettos. He was born to an
aristocratic family of Padua; his...
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Francesco Algarotti, who
competed with an
equally smitten John
Hervey for her affections. Lady Mary
wrote many
letters to
Francesco Algarotti in English...
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Other intellectuals attracted to the philosopher's
kingdom were
Francesco Algarotti, d'Argens, and
Julien Offray de La Mettrie.
Contrary to his father's fears...
