Literature year 1750

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Literature year 1750
Carlo Goldoni (portrait of Alessandro Longhi )	Apostolo Zeno , † 1750

Events

May: In a “tour de force” in the 1750/51 season, Carlo Goldoni contractually promises his impresario Medebach the staging of 16 new pieces at the Teatro Sant'Angelo - including some of his best works, alongside the aforementioned La bottega del caffè , Das Coffee house , also Il bugiardo ( The Liar ). Goldoni himself was impressed by the success of his play, which premiered on May 2, 1750 in Mantua : “This comedy received brilliant applause: the union and the contrast of the characters could not fail to have an effect. The character of the defender was interpreted in terms of several well-known people. ”One of these people would have been particularly indignant towards him and even threatened him with a duel . However, since one was rather curious about the 16 pieces in one year that Goldoni had promised, the supposedly offended one "magnanimously" gave him his life.

Weekly meetings of the Encyclopédie and its encyclopedists begin in the salon of Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach .

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the Dijon Academy Award for his Discours sur les sciences et les arts .

The Romeo and Juliet war of competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theater Royal Drury Lane against Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is raging at London theaters .

After receiving his Masters in Aberdeen , Tobias Smollett travels to France, where he collects material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle .

Libraries

The Italian music scholar Giovanni Battista Martini is giving away his entire collection of sheet music and copies of old scores to Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini . As Fondo Chiti, this foundation forms the basis of the Corsini library . The library was housed in the Palazzo Corsini in Rome, today the seat of the Roman Accademia dei Lincei .

New releases

Friedrich von Einsiedel

John Trumbull, painted by his cousin, the painter John Trumbull

Fabre d'Églantine

Julie Clodius on a painting by Anton Graff from 1769

Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa

Leonor de Almeida, called Alcipe

Franciszek Dionizy kneeling

David Friedländer

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert

Periodicals

March: The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave ; followed by 208 issues, most of Samuel Johnson wrote
The Gießener Anzeiger is founded as a Giesser Wochenblatt .

Books

Henry Brooke - A New Collection of Fairy Tales
Sarah Fielding (attributed to) - The History of Charlotte Summers
Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron - Margot la ravaudeuse
Edward Kimber - The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson
Charlotte Lennox - The Life of Harriot Stuart
Robert Paltock - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
Sarah Scott - The History of Cornelia

drama

Kitty Clive - The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats
Carlo Goldoni - La Bottega di Caffe ; Il bugiardo
William Shirley - Edward the Black Prince
Voltaire - Oreste
William Whitehead - The Roman Father

Poetry

Moses Browne - Verses on the late earthquakes: address'd to Great Britain.
William Collins - The Passions: An ode
Francis Coventry - Penshurst
Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Martial Virtue (published anonymously)
Robert Dodsley - The Economy of Human Life
Mary Jones , Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Frederick II of Prussia - Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Second ode from the trip on the Zurich lake
Edward Moore - Solomon: a serenata
Charlotte Lennox , The Art of Coquetry
James Thomson , Poems on Several Occasions , posthumously
Thomas Warton - The Triumph of Isis
Edward Young - The Complaint (aka Night Thoughts )

Non-fiction

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Aesthetica (1st part)
William Blackstone - An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity
Moses Browne - The Compleat Angler = or, Contemplative man's recreation
John Campbell - The Present State of Europe
Thomas Chapman - An Essay on the Roman senate
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - œuvres (2 vol.)
Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron - Le Cosmopolite ou le Citoyen du Monde , L'univers est une espèce de livre dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays
Zachary Gray - A Free and Familiar Letter to William Warburton
Eliza Haywood - A Present for Women Addicted to Drinking (on the gin crisis)
James Hervey - Theron and Aspasio; Or, A series of dialogues and letters upon the most important subjects (German translation: edifying reflections on the glory of creation in the gardens and fields. 3 parts, Hamburg and Leipzig 1755.)
Francis Hutcheson - Reflections Upon Laughter
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg - The Critical Musicus on the Spree
Noël-Antoine Pluche - the scene of nature, or discussions of the nature and intentions of natural things. Vienna and Nuremberg 1750. (Original title: Le spectacle de la Nature ou Entretiens sur l'histoire naturelle et les sciences. Received by Gellert)
Montesquieu - Defense de l'Esprit des lois
Laurence Stars - The Abuses of Conscience
Dom Charles François Toustain and Dom René Prosper Tassin - Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique (1750–1765) (in six volumes)
Madeleine de Puisieux - La Femme n'est pas inférieure à l'homme

Born

0January 7 : Robert Anderson , literary critic († 1803)

0February 2 : Johann Jakob Hottinger , Swiss philologist, translator and writer († 1819 )

0February 2 : Karl Wilhelm Daßdorf , German librarian, poet and publicist († 1812 )

February 13 : Johann Ludwig Ambühl , Swiss administrative officer and writer († 1800 )

March 12 : Christian Friedrich Sintenis , German Protestant theologian, author of edification and storyteller.

April 24 : Johann Gottfried Dyck , German bookseller and writer († 1813 )

April 24 : John Trumbull , American poet at the time of the American Revolutionary War († 1831 )

April 30 : Friedrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel , German lawyer and writer († 1828 )

May 13 : Sophia Lee , English writer († 1824 )

July 29 : Fabre d'Églantine , French poet, actor, dramaturge and revolutionary († 1794 )

August 20 : Julie Clodius , German writer († 1805 )

0 September 5 : Robert Fergusson , Scottish poet († 1774 )

September 18 : Tomás de Iriarte , Spanish poet of the Enlightenment († 1791 )

October 21 : Christian Hieronymus Moll , Austrian theater director and publisher († after 1824 )

0October 4 : Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin , Polish Jesuit and poet († 1807 )

October 21 : Juraj Fándly , Slovak writer and priest († 1811 )

October 31 : Alcipe , Portuguese nobleman, poet and translator († 1839 )

0November 7th : Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , German poet, translator and lawyer († 1819 )

November 10 : Christian Friedrich Schröder , German writer († 1800 )

0December 6 : David Friedländer , German manufacturer and author († 1834 )

December 15 : Nicolas Gilbert , French poet († 1780 )

December 17 : Elizabeth Craven , British writer († 1828 )

undated : Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières , French writer († 1817 )

undated: Francesco Gianni Italian improviser († 1822 )

undated: Shiba Zenko , Japanese writer and actor († 1793 )

Died

0February 8 : Aaron Hill , playwright (* 1685 )
June 15 : Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal , French writer (* 1684 )
July 31 : Johann George Schreiber , German engraver, cartographer and publisher (* 1676 )
August 23 : Johann Christian Krüger , German writer, actor and playwright (* 1723 )
September 28 : Johann Sigismund Scholze , music collector and author from Silesia (* 1705 )
November 11th : Apostolo Zeno , poet, librettist and journalist (* 1668 )
November 18 : Susanna Highmore , poet (* 1690 )

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Hösle: Small history of Italian literature . CH Beck, Munich 1995, p. 121.
^ Ekkehard Eickhoff: Venice, late fireworks: Splendor and fall of the republic, 1700-1797 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2006, p. 165.
↑ Carlo Goldoni: Goldoni about himself and the history of his theater , part 2, translated from the French and provided with some comments by Georg Schaz, Verlag der Dykische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1788, p. 66.
↑ historicum.net: Publication history of the Encyclopédie (accessed on July 26, 2012)
^ Kalman A. Burnim: Looking upon His Like Again: Garrick and the Artist. In: Shirley Strum Kenny: British Theater and the Other Arts, 1660-1800. Folger Shakespeare Libr., Washington 1984, p. 182ff., Here: p. 191.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
^ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : Odes by Klopstock. Zurich 1750, p. 369ff.
↑ Raimond Bezold: Baumgarten's death. In: Karl Richter (ed.): Concise moment. Studies on German Enlightenment and Classical literature. Festschrift for Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Schings. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, p. 19ff., Here p. 21. The second volume should not be published until 1758. Despite the great approach, the work remained a fragment, as Baumgarten was unable to complete the work due to a depression that he himself described.

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[1] Johannes Hösle: Small history of Italian literature . CH Beck, Munich 1995, p. 121.

[2] Ekkehard Eickhoff: Venice, late fireworks: Splendor and fall of the republic, 1700-1797 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2006, p. 165.

[3] Carlo Goldoni: Goldoni about himself and the history of his theater , part 2, translated from the French and provided with some comments by Georg Schaz, Verlag der Dykische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1788, p. 66.

[4] storicum.net: Publication history of the Encyclopédie (accessed on July 26, 2012)

[5] Kalman A. Burnim: Looking upon His Like Again: Garrick and the Artist. In: Shirley Strum Kenny: British Theater and the Other Arts, 1660-1800. Folger Shakespeare Libr., Washington 1984, p. 182ff., Here: p. 191.

[cocel-6] Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .

[7] Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : Odes by Klopstock. Zurich 1750, p. 369ff.

[8] Raimond Bezold: Baumgarten's death. In: Karl Richter (ed.): Concise moment. Studies on German Enlightenment and Classical literature. Festschrift for Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Schings. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, p. 19ff., Here p. 21. The second volume should not be published until 1758. Despite the great approach, the work remained a fragment, as Baumgarten was unable to complete the work due to a depression that he himself described.