Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti was an Italian literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries. During his years in England he was oft
Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Joseph Baretti, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Title page of Baretti's Dictionary of the English and Italian languages
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a Welsh writer and socialite whose diaries, letters and other works made her an important source of information on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. A member
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
…introduced him to Oliver Goldsmith, James Boswell, and Edmund Burke. In 1773, Baretti became the Italian language tutor of Hetty, one of the daughters of Hester Thrale. For his pupil he wrote in 1775 a delightful Easy Phraseology for the Use of Young Ladies, who Intend to Learn … Italian. He became a frequent visitor…
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Hester Thrale and her daughter Hester (c. 1777), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
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