Giuseppe Baretti
Giuseppe Baretti (born April 24, 1719 in Turin , Italy , † May 5, 1789 in London ) was an Italian poet .
Life
Giuseppe Baretti moved to London in 1751, where he took over the management of the Italian theater . In 1757 he published The Italian Library , an anthology of biography and works by Italian authors. This is the first time that the phrase “Eppur si muove” (“And she moves”) is quoted, the famous saying attributed to Galileo Galilei , which he is said to have said before the Inquisition Court. In 1760 he published a Dictionary of the English and Italian Language . In the same year he traveled to Italy via Portugal and Spain ; he described the impressions of this trip in his well-known work Lettere famigliari . Under the pseudonym Aristarco Scannabue he edited the critical literary magazine Frusta letteraria from 1763 to 1765 , which was directed against the Arcadians and endeavored to spread the latest intellectual and cultural currents. When the magazine was suppressed, Baretti went back to London, where he remained until his death in 1789. He achieved great fame as a translator of Ovid and Corneille and as a defender of Shakespeare against Voltaire .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Galileo disse davvero "Eppur si muove"? Focus.it, February 15, 2014, accessed July 7, 2015 (Italian).
- ↑ Horst Heintze : La Frusta letteraria . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. p. 160.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baretti, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1719 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1789 |
| Place of death | London |