This essay aims at outlining Baretti’s attitude toward antiquarianism, which pervaded eighteenth-century Europe and Italy in particular, first with the revival of Etruscan studies and then with the discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Baretti’s attacks towards the study of antiquities cover the years before Baretti definitively moved to England in 1766, starting from 1750, when he published the “Primo Cicalamento” against Giuseppe Bartoli, Paduan antiquarian and professor of eloquence and Greek at the University of Turin, who took part in the renowned antiquarian dispute over the «Querini Diptych». His dislike of the antiquarian concerns of his time would later become ‒ unexpectedly ‒ a matter of political balance, involving the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice.
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Chapter Title
Una singolare epidemia del Settecento: Baretti e la «peste» antiquaria
Authors
Elisa Bianco
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.06
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Baretti’s England
Book Subtitle
Figure e momenti del Settecento anglo-italiano
Editors
Elisa Bianco, Alessandra Vicentini
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Number of Pages
200
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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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