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BARETTI, GIUSEPPE

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BARETTI, GIUSEPPE MARC' See also:ANTONIO (1719-1789), See also:Italian critic, was See also:born at See also:Turin in 1719. He was intended by his See also:father for the profession of See also:law, but at the See also:age of sixteen fled from Turin and went to See also:Guastalla, where he was for some See also:time employed in a See also:mercantile See also:house. His leisure See also:hours he devoted to literature and See also:criticism, in which he became See also:expert. For many years he led a wandering See also:life, supporting himself chiefly by his writings. At length he arrived in See also:London, where he remained for a consider-able time. He obtained an See also:appointment as secretary to the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Painting, and became acquainted with See also:Johnson, See also:Garrick and others of that society. He was a frequent visitor at the Thrales'; and his name occurs repeatedly in See also:Boswell's Life. In 1769 he was tried for See also:murder, having had the misfortune to inflict a mortal See also:wound with his See also:fruit See also:knife on a See also:man who had assaulted him on the See also:street. Johnson among others gave See also:evidence in his favour at the trial, which resulted in Baretti's acquittal. He died in May 1789. His first See also:work of any importance was the Italian Library (London, 1757), a useful See also:catalogue of the lives and See also:works of many Italian authors. The Lettere famigliari, giving an See also:account of his travels through See also:Spain, See also:Portugal and See also:France during the years 1761–1765, were well received, and when afterwards published in See also:English (4 vols., 1770), were highly commended by Johnson.

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Italy on his travels Baretti set on See also:foot a See also:journal of See also:literary criticism, to which he gave the See also:title of Frusta letteraria, the literary See also:scourge. It was published under considerable difficulties and was soon discontinued. The criticisms on contemporary writers were sometimes just, but are frequently disfigured by undue vehemence and coarseness. Among his other numerous works may be mentioned a useful See also:Dictionary and See also:Grammar of the Italian See also:Language, and a dissertation on See also:Shakespeare and See also:Voltaire. His collected works were published at See also:Milan in 1838.

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