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COUNT See also: Italian philosopher and writer on See also: art, was See also: born on the zzth of See also: December, 1712 at Venice, and died at See also: Pisa in 1764
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He studied at Romer and Bologna, and at the age of twenty went to See also: Paris, where he enjoyed the friendship of 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
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Returning from a journey to See also: Russia, he met See also: Frederick the Great who made him a count of Prussia (1740) and See also: court See also: chamberlain (1747)
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See also: Augustus III. of Poland honoured him with the title of councillor
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In 1754, after seven years' residence partly in 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
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Frederick the Great erected to his memory a monument on the Campo Santo at Pisa
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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
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His 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, Essay on See also: Painting, See also: Correspondence
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The best See also: complete edition with biography was published by D
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Michelessi (1791-1794)
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