biography
| name: |
Bettinelli, Saverio
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pronunciation:
[behteenaylee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1718–1808)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Mantua, Lombardy, N Italy. A Jesuit, he travelled widely in Europe before settling in Mantua, where he published an extensive body of work, including tragedies (Serse, 1764), poems, and various essays. In his Lettere virgiliane (1757) and Lettere inglesi (1767) he criticized the Arcadia and its imitation of the classics. He also criticized part of Dante's Divine Comedy, causing a great scandal. He condemned Alfieri's and Foscolo's pre-Romanticism in Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti (1769), although he considered feeling superior to reason. |
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