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1 giorno fa · Voltaire ritratto da Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1737–1740 circa) Per questo dissidio umano e intellettuale sono interessanti anche le lettere scambiate direttamente tra due filosofi: in una missiva sul Discorso sull'origine della diseguaglianza di Rousseau, in polemica col primitivismo del ginevrino, Voltaire gli scrisse che «leggendo la vostra opera viene voglia di camminare a quattro zampe.
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Denis Diderot (Langres, 5 ottobre 1713 – Parigi, 31 luglio...
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1 giorno fa · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
1 giorno fa · Seven Years' War. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
2 giorni fa · This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish ...
5 giorni fa · Giovanni Paisiello (born May 9, 1740, Roccaforzata, near Taranto, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]—died June 5, 1816, Naples) was a Neapolitan composer of operas admired for their robust realism and dramatic power.
2 giorni fa · In 1740, the Maratha forces, under Raghoji Bhonsle, came down upon Arcot and defeated the Nawab of Arcot, Dost Ali, in the pass of Damalcherry. In the war that followed, Dost Ali, one of his sons Hasan Ali, and several other prominent people died.
2 giorni fa · Other major 18th-century British novelists are Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–54), who wrote Joseph Andrews (1742) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749).
