1764
Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1712)
Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1712)
Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1712)
Francesco Algarotti
Italian polymath (1712–1764)
- Died
- 1764
Count Francesco Algarotti was an Italian polymath, active as a philosopher, writer, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.