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ALGAROTTI, FRANCESCO, COUNT (1712-1764)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 599 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALGAROTTI, FRANCESCO, COUNT (1712-1764) , Italian philosopher and writer on art, was born on the zzth of December, 1712 at Venice, and died at Pisa in 1764. He studied at Romer and Bologna, and at the age of twenty went to Paris, where he enjoyed the friendship of Voltaire and produced his
great
 
work
  Neutonianismo per le dame, a
work
  on optics. Voltaire called him his cher cygne de Padoue. Returning from a journey to
Russia
 , he met Frederick the
Great
  who made him a
count
  of Prussia (1740) and court
chamberlain
  (1747).
Augustus
  III. of Poland honoured him with the title of councillor. In 1754, after seven years' residence partly in Berlin and partly in Dresden, he returned to Italy, living at Venice and then at Pisa, where he died on the 3rd of May 1764. Frederick the Great erected to his memory a
monument
  on the Campo Santo at Pisa. He was a man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his time. His
chief
  work on art is the Saggi sopra le belle arti (" Essays on the Fine Arts "). Among his other works may be mentioned Poems, Travels in
Russia
 , Essay on Painting, Correspondence.
The best complete edition with
biography
  was published by D. Michelessi (1791-1794).


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