1764 in literature
Events
-
January 19th: John Wilkes is expelled of the British Parliament for its work Essay one Woman , considered to be contrary with the moralities.
- Pietro Verri founds the review It Coffee with Milan.
- has Milan, a group of young aristocrats influenced by the Lumières constitutes around Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria a coterie baptized I pugni ( the fists ) and publishes of 1764 a newspaper, It Coffee , which attacks with conformism and the academism.
- the British painter Joshua Reynolds founds the literary club (Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Edmund Burke).
Tests
- the German historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prefect of Antiquities of Rome and librarian of Vaticane, publishes his Histoire of the art of Antiquity . This book dates the redefinition from the criteria of the Beautiful in absolute opposition with the Baroque, marking the birth of the Neo-classic one.
- Treated offenses and sorrows , of Cesare Beccaria, which criticizes the penal system in force with Milan.
- Contemplation of nature , Charles Bonnet.
- philosophical Dictionary of Voltaire.
Novels
- the Castle of Otranto , historical novel of Horace Walpole (1717-1797).
Theater
See also: 1764 with the theater
Poetry
- The Traveller , philosophical poem of Oliver Goldsmith.
Principal births
Principal deaths
See too
Related articles
----
| Random links: | Carlo Ancelotti | Christi Shake | Willow of the basket makers | Mégantic-Compton | Federico Cervelli | Dinah_Manoff |