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DILETTANTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DILETTANTE  , an

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Italian word for one who delights in the
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fine arts, especially in
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music and
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painting, so a
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lover of the fine arts in
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general . The Ital. dilettare is from
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Lat. detect are, to delight . Properly the word refers to an "
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amateur " as opposed to a " professional " cultivation of the arts, but like " amateur " it is often used in a depreciatory sense for one who is only a dabbler, or who only has a superficial knowledge or
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interest in
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art . The Dilettanti Society founded in 1733-1734 still exists in
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England . A
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history of the society, by Lionel Cust, was published in 1898 .

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