This essay aims at outlining Baretti’s attitude toward antiquarianism, which pervaded eighteenth-century Europe and Italy in particular, first with the revival of Etruscan studies and then with the discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Baretti’s attacks towards the study of antiquities cover the years before Baretti definitively moved to England in 1766, starting from 1750, when he published the “Primo Cicalamento” against Giuseppe Bartoli, Paduan antiquarian and professor of eloquence and Greek at the University of Turin, who took part in the renowned antiquarian dispute over the «Querini Diptych». His dislike of the antiquarian concerns of his time would later become ‒ unexpectedly ‒ a matter of political balance, involving the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice.
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Titolo del capitolo
Una singolare epidemia del Settecento: Baretti e la «peste» antiquaria
Autori
Elisa Bianco
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.06
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 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)
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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