The essays in this collected volume explore various aspects of Giuseppe Baretti, a key figure of the Italian Enlightenment, focusing on his personality and works, as well as the English environment that shaped his life. Attention to the transnational dimension of his activity provides original insights, highlighting the importance of the network of Italian exiles with whom he established close contacts in London and the debate that placed him at the heart of the European intellectual scene. From his trial for murder to Mario Manlio Rossi’s interpretation of his activities and writings, from the Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages to the Frusta Letteraria and other linguistic and literary works, the collection is filled with intellectuals, artists, and musicians who inhabit Baretti’s universe. The backdrop is eighteenth-century London: populous, multicultural, and constantly on the move.
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Davide Arecco
Uno scrittore, due mondi: Baretti, gli illuministi inglesi e il Settecento italianopp.21-32
Paolo Luca Bernardini
L’«agnostico» Baretti. Mario Manlio Rossi (1895-1971) e il suo inedito: Anglomania ed «amicizia tradizionale». Saggio sull’atteggiamento italiano verso la Granbretagna nel Settecento e nell’Ottocento (1953-5)pp.33-54
Elisa Bianco
Una singolare epidemia del Settecento: Baretti e la «peste» antiquariapp.55-67
Pierangelo Castagneto
Ageno il londinese. La vita avventurosa del ministro della Repubblica di Genova in Inghilterrapp.69-89
Eleonora Gallitelli
Genio nazionale versus gusto universale. Baretti interprete e apologeta di Shakespeare nella polemica contro Voltairepp.91-103
Gianmarco Gaspari
«Facilità e chiarezza» o «nessun garbo di lingua»? Baretti e le Lettere familiari e critiche di Vincenzio Martinellipp.105-127
Giovanni Iamartino
«The metropolis of Great Britain»: Londra nelle lettere e nel dizionario di Giuseppe Barettipp.129-139
Omar Khalaf
Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetrypp.141-150
pp.151-176
Book Title
Baretti’s England
Book Subtitle
Figure e momenti del Settecento anglo-italiano
Editors
Elisa Bianco, Alessandra Vicentini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
200
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0447-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0448-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0449-1
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986