biography
| name: |
Cesarotti, Melchiorre
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pronunciation:
[chaysarottee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1730–1808)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Padua, Veneto, NE Italy. He lectured in Greek and Hebrew and translated Homer, his vast and eclectic knowledge making him one of the most prominent members of Italian pre-Romanticism. His huge literary production is collected in Opere (40 vols, 1800–13), but he is best known for his translation of the Canti di Ossian (1763, 1772, 1801), which profoundly influenced Alfieri, Foscolo, and Leopardi. He also wrote Saggio sulla filosofia delle lingue and Saggio sulla filosofia del gusto (1785), about language. |
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