The article analyzes the relationship between Antonio Niccolini, authoritative scholar and intellectual of the Florence of the Regency, Lady Walpole (Margaret Rolle d’Ayton, Countess of Orford), an emancipated and lively figure of emigrée, and the Paduan abbot Antonio Conti (1677-1749), scholar and philosopher, interlocutor of the cultivated Europe of time. The letters sent by Walpole and Conti to Niccolini, preserved in the very rich correspondence of the Archive of the Marquis Niccolini-Camugliano, and here for the first time published, allow reviving a dialogue in which the Florentine Marquis confirms his role as support to the circles of Tuscan masonry and as judge and promoter of the Conti’s Tragedies.
Massoneria e letteratura: le lettere di Lady Walpole e Antonio Conti ad Antonio Niccolini
Renzo Rabboni
2019-01-01
Abstract
The article analyzes the relationship between Antonio Niccolini, authoritative scholar and intellectual of the Florence of the Regency, Lady Walpole (Margaret Rolle d’Ayton, Countess of Orford), an emancipated and lively figure of emigrée, and the Paduan abbot Antonio Conti (1677-1749), scholar and philosopher, interlocutor of the cultivated Europe of time. The letters sent by Walpole and Conti to Niccolini, preserved in the very rich correspondence of the Archive of the Marquis Niccolini-Camugliano, and here for the first time published, allow reviving a dialogue in which the Florentine Marquis confirms his role as support to the circles of Tuscan masonry and as judge and promoter of the Conti’s Tragedies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
