1718
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (died 1808)
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (died 1808)
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (died 1808)
Saverio Bettinelli
Italian Jesuit writer (1718–1808)
- Born
- 1718
Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume du Tillot, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo, Pietro Verri, Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents.