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SAVESIO BETTINELLI (1718-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BETTINELLI (1718-1808)  , See also:Italian Jesuit and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Mantua on the 18th of See also:July 1718 . After studying under the See also:Jesuits in his native See also:city and at See also:Bologna he entered the society in 1736 . He taught the belles-lettres from 1739 to 1744 at See also:Brescia, where See also:Cardinal Quirini, See also:Count Mazzuchelli, Count Duranti and other scholars, formed an illus-trious See also:academy . He next went to Bologna, to pursue the study of divinity, and there he enjoyed the society of many learned and See also:literary men . At the See also:age of See also:thirty he went to See also:Venice, where he became See also:professor of See also:rhetoric, and was on friendly terms with the most illustrious persons of that city and See also:state . The superintendence of the See also:college of nobles at See also:Parma was entrusted to him in 1751; and he had See also:principal See also:charge of the studies of See also:poetry and See also:history, and the entertainments of the See also:theatre . He remained there eight years, visiting, at intervals, other cities of See also:Italy, either on the affairs of his See also:order, for See also:pleasure or for See also:health . In 1755 he traversed See also:part of See also:Germany, proceeded as far as See also:Strassburg and See also:Nancy, and returned by way of Germany into Italy, taking with him two See also:young sons or nephews of the See also:prince of See also:Hohenlohe, who had requested him to take charge of their See also:education . He made, the See also:year following, 1nother See also:journey into See also:France; along with the eldest of his pupils; nd during this excursion he wrote his famous Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi, which were published at Venice with his sciolti verses, and those of See also:Frugoni and See also:Algarotti . The opinions maintained in these letters against the two See also:great Italian poets and particularly against See also:Dante, created him many enemies, and embroiled him with Algarotti . In 1758 he went into See also:Lorraine, to the See also:court of See also:King See also:Stanislaus, who sent him on a See also:matter of business to visit See also:Voltaire . Voltaire presented him with a copy of his See also:works, with a flattering inscription in allusion to See also:Bettinelli's Letters of See also:Virgil .

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Geneva he returned to Parma, where he arrived in 1759 . He afterwards lived for some years at See also:Verona and See also:Modena, and he had just been appointed professor of rhetoric there, when, in 1773, the order of Jesuits was abolished in Italy . Bettinelli then returned into his own See also:country, and resumed his literary labours with new ardour . The See also:siege of Mantua by the See also:French compelled him to leave the city, and. he retired to Verona, where he formed an intimate friendship with the See also:chevalier Hippolito Pindemonti . In 1797 he returned to Mantua . Though nearly eighty years old, he resumed his labours and his customary manner of See also:life . He undertook in 1799 a See also:complete edition of his works, which was published at Venice in 24 vols . 12mo . Arrived at the age of ninety years, he still retained his gaiety and vivacity of mind, and died on the 13th of See also:September 1808 . The works of Bettinelli are now of little value . The only one still deserving remembrance, perhaps, is the Risorgimento negli studj, nelle, Arti e ne' Costumi dopo it Mille (1775-1786), a See also:sketch of the progress of literature, See also:science, the See also:fine arts, See also:industry, &c., in Italy .

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