Angelo Querini

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Angelo Querini 1721-1796

Angelo Querini , the Senator (born July 31, 1721 in Venice , † December 30, 1796 ibid) was an Italian politician , Freemason , enlightener and art collector .

Life

Querini's Villa and Park in Altecchiero 1787

Angelo Querini was born in Venice in 1721. He came from an influential and wealthy patrician family. Querini identified with the ideas of the Enlightenment and was particularly influenced by Voltaire . Between 1758 and 1763, Angelo Querini tried to reform the Senate and the Council of Ten . However, his reform initiatives failed because of the established structures. In 1761 Angelo Querini was briefly imprisoned on a trip to Vienna because of his liberal ideas. After 1763, Angelo Querini increasingly withdrew to his Villa dell'Alticchiero on the Brenta , where he built up his collection of antiquities, which was well known at the time. In the park of the villa he laid a grave for the skeletal remains of Lucius Cornelius Scipio found in Rome . In 1777 Angelo Querini went on a trip to Switzerland and visited his friend Hirzel in Zurich. He met with Bodmer , Gessner , Lavater and other heads of the Zurich Enlightenment. Impressed by the philosophical farmer Kleinjogg , Angelo Querini had a stone relief made of the same. Hirzel published a report on the encounter entitled "New Trial of the Philosophical Peasant", which he dedicated to Querini. The journey took him to Bern to Haller , to Ferney to Voltaire and to Colmar to Pfeffel . Until his death in 1796, Angelo Querini was an important point of contact for Northern European writers and artists in Venice. In the 1980s, he was close friends with Denon , whom he had met in Countess Isabella Teotochi-Marin’s salon . Angelo Quirini was a leading member of the Venice Lodge, which was banned in 1785 .

Publications

  • Journal d'un voyage fait en Suisse, en 1777. Girolamo Festari, Venice 1835.

literature

  • Hans Caspar Hirzel: New examination of the philosophical farmer. Orell, Geßner, Füßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1785.
  • Wilhelm Heinse: The records Frankfurter Nachlass Commentary on Volume 1 Volume 3 records 1768-1783. Hanser Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-446-20399-0 , p. 449, limited preview in the Google book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Caspar Hirzel : New examination of the philosophical farmer: together with some glimpses of the genius of this century and other objects of interest to people . Orell Gen︣er Fül︣i, 1785 ( read online in the Google book search [accessed on October 13, 2010]).
personal data
SURNAME Querini, Angelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelo Quirini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1796
Place of death Venice