See also:COUNT See also:FRANCESCO See also:ALGAROTTI (1712-1764)
, See also:Italian philosopher and writer on See also:art, was See also:born on the zzth of See also:December, 1712 at See also:Venice, and died at See also:Pisa in 1764
.
He studied at Romer and See also:Bologna, and at the See also:age of twenty went to See also:Paris, where he enjoyed the friendship of See also:Voltaire and produced his See also:great
See also:work Neutonianismo per le See also:dame, a work on See also:optics
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Voltaire called him his See also:cher cygne de Padoue
.
Returning from a See also:journey to See also:Russia, he met See also:Frederick the Great who made him a See also:count of See also:Prussia (1740) and See also:court See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain (1747)
.
See also:Augustus III. of See also:Poland honoured him with the See also:title of councillor
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In 1754, after seven years' See also:residence partly in See also:Berlin and partly in See also:Dresden, he returned to See also:Italy, living at Venice and then at Pisa, where he died on the 3rd of May 1764
.
Frederick the Great erected to his memory a See also:monument on the Campo Santo at Pisa
.
He was a See also:man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and See also:music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
His See also:chief work on art is the Saggi sopra le belle arti (" Essays on the See also:Fine Arts ")
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Among his other See also:works may be mentioned Poems, Travels in Russia, See also:Essay on See also:Painting, See also:Correspondence
.
The best See also:complete edition with See also:biography was published by D
.
Michelessi (1791-1794)
.
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