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Francesco Algarotti

1712 - 1764

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Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Algarotti is the 709th most popular philosopher (down from 694th in 2019), the 2,067th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,000th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Italian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Francesco Algarotti ranks 709 out of 1,267. Before him are Charles Renouvier, Franz Neumann, Herman of Carinthia, Péter Pázmány, Henry More, and Mario Bunge. After him are Stephen Toulmin, Aedesia, André Glucksmann, Onesicritus, Svetozar Marković, and Edvard Westermarck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Francesco Algarotti ranks 13. Before him are Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, George Grenville, and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. After him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Toriyama Sekien, John Stanley, James Steuart, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Johann Samuel König. Among people deceased in 1764, Francesco Algarotti ranks 12. Before him are Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Johann Mattheson, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. After him are Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Picander, Semyon Chelyuskin, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Nathaniel Bliss, and Hans Adolph Brorson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Algarotti ranks 2,067 out of 5,161. Before him are Eugénie de Beauharnais (1808), Roberto Bettega (1950), Luigi Vanvitelli (1700), Valeria Golino (1965), Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663), and Virginia de' Medici (1568). After him are Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (-600), Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471), Franco Citti (1935), Gerolama Orsini (1503), Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447), and Tommaso Mocenigo (1343).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Francesco Algarotti ranks 54. Before him are Guarino da Verona (1374), Nicola Abbagnano (1901), Hippo (-500), Cristoforo Landino (1424), Pantaenus (200), and Antonio Rosmini (1797). After him are Paolo Sarpi (1552), Philip of Opus (-400), Luigi Guido Grandi (1671), Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672), Vincenzo Gioberti (1801), and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707).

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