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The Venetian writer and polymath Francesco Algarotti, who built a considerable collection of art during his life, died on May 3, 1764. Francesco Algarotti - writer and art collector Francesco Algarotti was a man of many talents with a colorful love life: Philosopher and polymath with a playboy lifestyle The multi-talented writer, philosopher and art connoisseur Francesco Algarotti, one of the.
Francesco Algarotti Bibliography. Il Newtonianismo per le dame 1737 Written in 1773, Algarotti’s popularization of Newtonian optics was translated into English in 1739 and was highly praised by Voltaire. Born in Venice on 11 December 1712, Algarotti was educated in Rome, Bologna and Florence. Aged 20 he went to Paris and soon made himself known in intellectual circles. After a visit to.
Francesco Algarotti’s Essay on the Opera (1755) inspired Gluck’s reforms. Gluck was very successful with his ideas and he made a great impact on the history of opera. Gluck’s first reform opera was Orfeo ed Euridice, which had simple harmonies and the orchestra played the main parts. Many famous composers were inspired by Gluck’s reforms, with the likes of Mozart, Weber and Wagner.
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This essay on opera by Francesco Algarotti is an important, but neglected treatise of eighteenth century musical aesthetics. It belongs to that movement in the arts that rejected the artificiality and formality of Baroque style and moved towards the naturalness of expression characteristic of the painting, literature, drama, fashion, and gardening of the latter part of that century. hardcover.