Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector...

Italian composer Francesco Zuccarelli (1702–1788), Italian painter Francesco Zahra (1710–1773), Maltese painter Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), Italian...

works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views...

response to English influences. In Prussia the critic and courtier Francesco Algarotti corresponded with Burlington about his efforts to persuade Frederick...

Venetian philosopher Francesco Algarotti, and they were both infatuated. Frederick planned to make him a count. Challenged by Algarotti that northern Europeans...

Neva River, he founded Saint Petersburg, a city famously dubbed by Francesco Algarotti as the "window to the West". In 1714, Peter relocated the capital...

Count Francesco Algarotti, who competed with an equally smitten John Hervey for her affections. Lady Mary wrote many letters to Francesco Algarotti in English...

a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume...

returned through Holland and Germany to Verona. He was a friend of Francesco Algarotti, who wrote him many letters. On his return to Verona, he built a...

Other intellectuals attracted to the philosopher's kingdom were Francesco Algarotti, d'Argens, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Contrary to his father's...

Voltaire's emendations as footnotes.[citation needed] Frederick sent Francesco Algarotti to London to take care of the publication of Anti-Machiavel in English...

firmly established throughout Europe, with the help of his friend Francesco Algarotti, an art dealer, critic and collector. That year, at the behest of...

positivist thinking (Lodoli's words were published by his student, Francesco Algarotti, in 1757). Sullivan was Greenough's much younger compatriot and admired...

(1677-1736) John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696-1743) (lover of Francesco Algarotti and Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester) John Tylney, 2nd...

classed The Chocolate Girl as his masterpiece. On 3 February 1745 Francesco Algarotti purchased the drawing directly from Liotard in Venice. In an unknown...

Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, by his agent Francesco Algarotti. According to a letter of 1744 from Algarotti to Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763), the Saxon...

of the Imperial family. In 1745 he sold La belle chocolatière to Francesco Algarotti. Still under distinguished patronage [citation needed] he returned...

through her many correspondents including Voltaire, Cesare Beccaria, Francesco Algarotti, Roger Boscovich, Charles Bonnet, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Paolo Frisi...

Kolokotronis (1825). He also made portraits of Francesco Algarotti and Luigi Lanzi. Andreas Miaoulis by Boggi Francesco Bruni (2002). Niccolò Tommaseo. Patrie...

academies and the university. Writing for a growing female audience, Francesco Algarotti published Il Newtonianism per le dame, which was a tremendously popular...

intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d. 1778) December 11 – Francesco Algarotti, Venetian philosopher (d. 1764) December 12 Prince Charles Alexander...

1721) April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681) May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) June 29 – Ralph Allen, English businessman...

of the FIFA referees committee Francesco Algarotti, Italian Philosopher, poet, art critic and art collector. Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher...

Omani poet John Agard (born 1949, British Guiana/Guyana, d/p/ch) Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764, Italy, nf/p) Shimon Agassi (1852–1914, Mesopotamia, nf)...

Italy was her fascination with an Italian poet half her age named Francesco Algarotti. Scholars also suspect her sudden uproot to Italy was a form of feminist...

Only a few civilians were honored: Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1747), Francesco Algarotti (1747) and Voltaire (1750). In January 1810, during the Napoleonic...

his works include Filippo (1775), Oreste (1786) and Mirra (1786) Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), philosopher and art critic; author of a number of stimulating...

Teilhard de Chardin born. 1469: Niccolò Machiavelli born. 1764: Francesco Algarotti dies. 1762: Johann Heinrich Abicht born. 1845: William Kingdon Clifford...

she was famous and respected by the greatest thinkers of her time. Francesco Algarotti styled the dialogue of Il Newtonianismo per le dame based on conversations...

form belongs to a monk Carlo Lodoli (1690–1761). Lodoli's student, Francesco Algarotti, published in 1757 his mentor's phrase, "in architecture only that...