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Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
Standard Name: Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio
Used Form: Giuseppi Baretti
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | CL
won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
. (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti
to Johnson, and had... |
| Publishing | Samuel Johnson | The work was translated into Spanish by Inés Joyes y Blake
as El principe de Abisinia and published at Madrid by 25 May 1798, bound together with Blake's proto-feminist, Wollstonecraft
-influenced tract, the Apologia de... |
| Reception | Charlotte Lennox | CL
kept copies of a number of verse tributes to her talents. She was one among the painter Richard Samuel
's The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain in 1778 (exhibited 1779). Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998. 199 |
| Textual Production | Mary Masters | Not included in her collection, though it is a form of letter, was a petition to Samuel Richardson
, written and signed by MM
and Anna Williams
in 1753 (probably before August) for delivery by... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Beryl Bainbridge | Most of this novel's characters—Thrale, Johnson, the child Queeney, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
(in response to whose proddings Queeney produces her retrospective part of the narrative), Giuseppe Baretti
, James Boswell
, Frances Burney
—left their own... |
Timeline
April 1781: Giuseppi Baretti sought to make the Royal...
Writing climate item
April 1781
Giuseppi Baretti
sought to make the Royal Academy
exhibitions more accessible by publishing A Guide through the Academy.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Texts
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