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He was born in 1719 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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He was born in 1719 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
He was intended by his father for the profession of law, but at the age of sixteen fled from Turin and went to Guastalla, where he was for some time employed in a mercantile house.
He obtained an appointment as secretary to the Royal Academy of Painting, and became acquainted with Johnson, Garrick and others of that society.
Dissatisfied with conditions in Italy, he went to London in 1751.
In 1760 he published A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.
In 1763 he started in Venice a review, Frusta letteraria ("Literary Scourge"), assuming the character of an old soldier, Aristarco Scannabue--a name which he translated "Aristarchus the Dunce-killer. "
Baretti's purpose was to rouse Italians from their complacency by ridiculing the prevailing ignorance and affectation.
His judgments, based on common sense, were often excessive in praise or blame; thus he saw no merit in Carlo Goldoni, but compared Carlo Gozzi to Shakespeare.
He condemned Voltaire in Discours sur Shakespeare et sur Monsieur de Voltaire (London, 1777).
In 1769 he had the misfortune to kill, in self-defense, one of a group of rowdies; at his trial Samuel Johnson and other influential friends defended him, and he was acquitted.
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