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ALGAROTTI, FRANCESCO, COUNT (1712-1764)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALGAROTTI, See also:FRANCESCO, See also:COUNT (1712-1764) , See also:Italian philosopher and writer on See also:art, was See also:born on the zzth of See also:December, 1712 at See also:Venice, and died at See also:Pisa in 1764. He studied at Romer and See also:Bologna, and at the See also:age of twenty went to See also:Paris, where he enjoyed the friendship of See also:Voltaire and produced his See also:great See also:work Neutonianismo per le See also:dame, a work on See also:optics. Voltaire called him his See also:cher cygne de Padoue. Returning from a See also:journey to See also:Russia, he met See also:Frederick the Great who made him a count of See also:Prussia (1740) and See also:court See also:chamberlain (1747). See also:Augustus III. of See also:Poland honoured him with the See also:title of councillor. In 1754, after seven years' See also:residence partly in See also:Berlin and partly in See also:Dresden, he returned to See also: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 See also:monument on the Campo Santo at Pisa. He was a See also:man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and See also:music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his See also:time. His See also:chief work on art is the Saggi sopra le belle arti (" Essays on the See also:Fine Arts "). Among his other See also:works may be mentioned Poems, Travels in Russia, See also:Essay on See also:Painting, See also:Correspondence. The best See also:complete edition with See also:biography was published by D. Michelessi (1791-1794).

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