Tuscan intellectual Vincenzio Martinelli spent much of his life in London. A teacher of Italian, an amateur musicologist, a great conversationalist, he was also well-versed in the capital's social life. He frequented its most illustrious residences (Walpole, Burney, Townshend) and was a long-standing point of reference for Italians visiting the city, from Casanova to Alessandro Verri. His work Lettere familiari e critiche (1758) provides an enlightening picture of mid-18th-century English society. However, he and his work have always been overshadowed by the hasty judgment of Giuseppe Baretti, who was a friend but deplored his linguistic views. In reality, Martinelli’s Lettere represent a crucial step in the pursuit of a language moving towards conversation and scientific dissemination, in the wake of Galileo, Redi and Magalotti, which would soon be decisively confirmed by the choices made by the «Caffè group».
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Titolo del capitolo
«Facilità e chiarezza» o «nessun garbo di lingua»? Baretti e le Lettere familiari e critiche di Vincenzio Martinelli
Autori
Gianmarco Gaspari
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Baretti’s England
Sottotitolo del libro
Figure e momenti del Settecento anglo-italiano
Curatori
Elisa Bianco, Alessandra Vicentini
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
200
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0447-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0448-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0449-1
Collana
Biblioteca di storia
ISSN della collana
2464-9007
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5986