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BETTINELLI, SAVESIO (1718-1808)

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BETTINELLI, SAVESIO (1718-1808) , See also:Italian Jesuit and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Mantua on the 18th of See also:July 1718. After studying under the See also:Jesuits in his native See also:city and at See also:Bologna he entered the society in 1736. He taught the belles-lettres from 1739 to 1744 at See also:Brescia, where See also:Cardinal Quirini, See also:Count Mazzuchelli, Count Duranti and other scholars, formed an illus-trious See also:academy. He next went to Bologna, to pursue the study of divinity, and there he enjoyed the society of many learned and See also:literary men. At the See also:age of See also:thirty he went to See also:Venice, where he became See also:professor of See also:rhetoric, and was on friendly terms with the most illustrious persons of that city and See also:state. The superintendence of the See also:college of nobles at See also:Parma was entrusted to him in 1751; and he had See also:principal See also:charge of the studies of See also:poetry and See also:history, and the entertainments of the See also:theatre. He remained there eight years, visiting, at intervals, other cities of See also:Italy, either on the affairs of his See also:order, for See also:pleasure or for See also:health. In 1755 he traversed See also:part of See also:Germany, proceeded as far as See also:Strassburg and See also:Nancy, and returned by way of Germany into Italy, taking with him two See also:young sons or nephews of the See also:prince of See also:Hohenlohe, who had requested him to take charge of their See also:education. He made, the See also:year following, 1nother See also:journey into See also:France; along with the eldest of his pupils; nd during this excursion he wrote his famous Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi, which were published at Venice with his sciolti verses, and those of See also:Frugoni and See also:Algarotti. The opinions maintained in these letters against the two See also:great Italian poets and particularly against See also:Dante, created him many enemies, and embroiled him with Algarotti. In 1758 he went into See also:Lorraine, to the See also:court of See also:King See also:Stanislaus, who sent him on a See also:matter of business to visit See also:Voltaire. Voltaire presented him with a copy of his See also:works, with a flattering inscription in allusion to Bettinelli's Letters of See also:Virgil.

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Geneva he returned to Parma, where he arrived in 1759. He afterwards lived for some years at See also:Verona and See also:Modena, and he had just been appointed professor of rhetoric there, when, in 1773, the order of Jesuits was abolished in Italy. Bettinelli then returned into his own See also:country, and resumed his literary labours with new ardour. The See also:siege of Mantua by the See also:French compelled him to leave the city, and. he retired to Verona, where he formed an intimate friendship with the See also:chevalier Hippolito Pindemonti. In 1797 he returned to Mantua. Though nearly eighty years old, he resumed his labours and his customary manner of See also:life. He undertook in 1799 a See also:complete edition of his works, which was published at Venice in 24 vols. 12mo. Arrived at the age of ninety years, he still retained his gaiety and vivacity of mind, and died on the 13th of See also:September 1808. The works of Bettinelli are now of little value. The only one still deserving remembrance, perhaps, is the Risorgimento negli studj, nelle, Arti e ne' Costumi dopo it Mille (1775-1786), a See also:sketch of the progress of literature, See also:science, the See also:fine arts, See also:industry, &c., in Italy.

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