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    Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector...
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    Italian composer Francesco Zuccarelli (1702–1788), Italian painter Francesco Zahra (1710–1773), Maltese painter Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), Italian...
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    response to English influences. In Prussia the critic and courtier Francesco Algarotti corresponded with Burlington about his efforts to persuade Frederick...
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    works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views...
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    Venetian philosopher Francesco Algarotti, and they were both infatuated. Frederick planned to make him a count. Challenged by Algarotti that northern Europeans...
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    Count Francesco Algarotti, who competed with an equally smitten John Hervey for her affections. Lady Mary wrote many letters to Francesco Algarotti in English...
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    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...
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    a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume...
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  • 1682) 1613 – Amar Singh Rathore, Rajput nobleman (d. 1644) 1712 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764) 1725 – George Mason...
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    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...
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  • Kolokotronis (1825). He also made portraits of Francesco Algarotti and Luigi Lanzi. Andreas Miaoulis by Boggi Francesco Bruni (2002). Niccolò Tommaseo. Patrie...
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    Other intellectuals attracted to the philosopher's kingdom were Francesco Algarotti, d'Argens, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Contrary to his father's...
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    Voltaire's emendations as footnotes.[citation needed] Frederick sent Francesco Algarotti to London to take care of the publication of Anti-Machiavel in English...
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  • (1677-1736) John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696-1743) (lover of Francesco Algarotti and Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester) John Tylney, 2nd...
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    classed The Chocolate Girl as his masterpiece. On 3 February 1745 Francesco Algarotti purchased the drawing directly from Liotard in Venice. In an unknown...
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    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...
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    positivist thinking (Lodoli's words were published by his student, Francesco Algarotti, in 1757). Sullivan was Greenough's much younger compatriot and admired...
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    firmly established throughout Europe, with the help of his friend Francesco Algarotti, an art dealer, critic and collector. That year, at the behest of...
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  • development of a stable marine chronometer in England. Venetian polymath Francesco Algarotti publishes Newtonianism for Ladies, or Dialogues on Light and Colours...
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    intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d. 1778) December 11 – Francesco Algarotti, Venetian philosopher (d. 1764) December 12 Prince Charles Alexander...
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    through her many correspondents including Voltaire, Cesare Beccaria, Francesco Algarotti, Roger Boscovich, Charles Bonnet, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Paolo Frisi...
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    all greatly altered for the purpose, but Frederick the Great and Francesco Algarotti both exerted influence in order to make Hasse pay greater respect...
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    of the Imperial family. In 1745 he sold La belle chocolatière to Francesco Algarotti. Still under distinguished patronage [citation needed] he returned...
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  • of the FIFA referees committee Francesco Algarotti, Italian Philosopher, poet, art critic and art collector. Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher...
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  • 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)...
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    1721) April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681) May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) June 29 – Ralph Allen, English businessman...
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  • Teilhard de Chardin born. 1469: Niccolò Machiavelli born. 1764: Francesco Algarotti dies. 1762: Johann Heinrich Abicht born. 1845: William Kingdon Clifford...
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  • (1780–1844)[f] Johann Heinrich Abicht, (1762–1816) John Adams, (1735–1826) Francesco Algarotti, (1712–1764) Archibald Alison, (1757–1839)[d] John Allen, (1771–1843)[f]...
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  • 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...
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    Other intellectuals attracted to the philosopher's kingdom were Francesco Algarotti, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Immanuel...
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