Saverio Bettinelli
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Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times
Frontispiece of Bettinelli's Lettere Virgiliane, Venice, 1758
Pietro Verri
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Count Pietro Verri was an Italian economist, historian, philosopher and writer. Among the most important personalities of the 18th-century Italian culture, he is considered among the fathers of the Lo
Saverio Bettinelli
…Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume du Tillot, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo, Pietro Verri, Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents. He was born at Mantua; there and later in Bologna, he studied under…
Pietro Verri
Società dei Pugni by Antonio Perego from left to right: Alfonso Longo (behind), Alessandro Verri, Giambattista Biffi, Cesare Beccaria, Luigi Lambertenghi, Pietro Verri and Giuseppe Visconti di Saliceto
Detail of Pietro Verri monument in Milan
The portrait of Pietro Verri on the house of Cesare Beccaria in Milan