LORENZO MAGALOTTI IN ENGLAND, 1668–9
| Autor: | R. D. Waller |
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| Rok vydání: | 1937 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Literature Linguistics and Language History Battle Paradise lost Natural philosophy Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Language and Linguistics Irrational number Natural (music) Performance art business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Italian Studies. 1:49-66 |
| ISSN: | 1748-6181 0075-1634 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/its.1937.1.2.49 |
| Popis: | Lorenzo Magalotti was one of the most versatile spirits of his age and country. Diplomatist, traveller, poet, natural philosopher, and secretary at one time of the Accademia del Cimento, he was an early representative of a type which was to become more common in the following century. Sir Isaac Newton called him “the magazine of good taste.” Accomplished and widely cultured, he scorned all that was irrational, superstitious, or pedantic, but took an alert interest in everything else; although generally with the detachment natural to one who was primarily a man of affairs. During the few months he spent in England he added English to his considerable knowledge of languages, and was one of the first writers to propagate a knowledge of our literature in Italy. He was certainly the first Italian who is known to have paid any attention to Milton, a portion of whose Paradise Lost he translated; he made a version also of Waller's Battle of the Bermudas (roba meno diabolica assai, as he says), and of John... |
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