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    Francesco Scipione Maffei (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ʃʃiˈpjoːne mafˈfɛi]; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was an Italian writer and art critic, author of...
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    in the early 18th century. Thereafter his definition was refined by Scipione Maffei, who used it to refer to this script as distinct from Roman square...
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    attracted public attention as the result of a journal article written by Scipione Maffei and published 1711 in Giornale de'letterati d'Italia of Venice. The...
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    his employers, and a single interview carried out by Scipione Maffei. From the latter, both Maffei's notes and the published journal article are preserved...
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    Faithful Nymph, RV 714) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei. The opera was first performed for the opening of the Teatro Filarmonico...
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    Istituto Maffei, officially called Liceo Ginnasio di Stato 'Scipione Maffei', is one of the oldest high schools in Italy. It is situated in the center...
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  • Marchese Maffei ('marquis of Maffei') may refer to: Alessandro Maffei (1662–1730), Italian general Francesco Scipione Maffei (1675–1755), Italian writer...
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  • Damian Maffei (born 1977), American actor Dan Maffei (born 1968), American politician Francesco Maffei (1605–1660), Italian painter Francesco Scipione, marchese...
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    Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in 1743 and first appeared in print in 1744. Scipione Maffei worked the classical...
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    dell'illustriss. signore conte Scipione Agnelli on GoogleBooks Maffei, Marchese Scipione (1825). "Verona illustrata, di Scipione Maffei". Portals: biography literature...
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    was the brother of the Italian writer and archaeologist Francesco Scipione. De Maffei was born at Verona. After entering the army of Bavaria in 1683 he...
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    new instrument remained relatively unknown until an Italian writer, Scipione Maffei, wrote an enthusiastic article about it in 1711, including a diagram...
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    born in Verona, Italy, on 3 May 1956. He attended the Liceo Classico Scipione Maffei in Verona. In the 1970s, he participated in the student political movements...
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  • The academic debates it occasioned—argued among Abbot Tartarotti, Scipione Maffei, Count Carli and others—eventually prompted the end of witchcraft as...
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  • killed the victim, killed him and regained his paternal kingdom." Scipione Maffei premiered his tragedy Merope in Verona on June 12, 1713; it quickly...
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  • Wertmüller La fida ninfa, an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei Ninfa Baronio (1874-1969) was an Italian-American anarcha-feminist...
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    painter Girolamo Lancerotti, painter Cesare Lombroso, criminologist Scipione Maffei, writer and historian Matteo Manassero, British amateur golf champion...
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    Suetonian model of a series of biographies. In 1710 together with Scipione Maffei, Antonio Vallisneri and his brother, Pier Caterino Zeno, he founded...
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  • 30 December 1737 Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo 49 777 Il giorno felice Scipione Maffei 1737 Venice Transferred to the Anhang as RV Anh. 92 50 731 Rosmira...
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    number of journals edited by such well-known writers as Francesco Scipione Maffei (Osservazioni letterarie, Verona, 1737–40), Giuseppe Baretti (La Frusta...
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  • letterati d'Italia, founded by Apostolo Zeno with the help of Francesco Scipione Maffei and Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1710), was continued after 1718 by Pietro...
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    place, territorio, e diocese di Vicenza by Francesco Barbarano de' Mironi". Maffei, Marchese Scipione (1731). "Verona illustrata by Scipione Maffei"....
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    inscription, which has disappeared, located above the attic, mentioned by Scipione Maffei in 1732 and by Francesco Ronzani in 1831, was dated 1533. By 1535,...
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    strumenti: le origini della collezione storica del liceo ginnasio "Scipione Maffei" di Verona". Atti del XXX congresso nazionale della Società italiana...
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    Church of San Giorgio in Braida, a Renaissance building admired by Scipione Maffei and Goethe for the numerous works of art housed there, particularly...
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    tragedie per uso della scena, introduced and possibly also selected by Scipione Maffei, together with Trissino's Sophonisba, a translation by Orsato Giustiniano...
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    Among poets he befriended Vincenzo da Filicaja and Benedetto Menzini. Scipione Maffei's dedication to him of the Giornale de' Letterati (1710) is a proof...
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    may have found out about Cristofori's invention as follows. In 1709, Scipione Maffei did research on the newly invented piano, including an interview with...
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    Zanotto, p. 61). Zanotto, p. 63). Zanotto, p. 64). Ridolfi, I, p. 45). Scipione Maffei. Verona illustrata. Vol. V. p. 107.. Sanudo, col. 664). Zanotto, p...
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  • church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona. He also completed the Statue of Scipione Maffei (1756) for the Domus Nova or Palazzo dei Giudici in Verona. He also...
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