Francesco Maria Zanotti

Francesco Maria Zanotti
Born6 January 1692 Edit this on Wikidata
Bologna, Papal States
Died25 December 1777 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 85)
Bologna, Papal States
OccupationWriter, philosopher Edit this on Wikidata
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Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (Bologna, 6 January 1692 – Bologna, 25 December 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer.[1] Besides being a writer, he was also a commentator on works of art. He was considered an authoritative source on many topics.[by whom?]

Life

He was the son of Giampietro Zanotti, and a pupil of Eustachio Manfredi. In 1718 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Bologna, and in 1723 he was appointed as secretary of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. Initially a Cartesian, he became a follower of Newton.[1] In 1728 Francesco Algarotti experimented with light in his lab, replicating the prism and spectrum experiments of Isaac Newton.[2][3] In 1741 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.[4]

Zanotti's 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics. In 1754 Zanotti criticised Pierre-Louis Maupertuis for his views on Stoicism and Christianity, and was drawn into controversy about Stoicism with the Dominican professor Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi.[1]

In 1766 he became president of Institute of Science in Bologna.[5] In 1775 Benjamin Wilson (painter) began a correspondence with Zanotti on phosphor.[6]

Other members of the family

His brother, Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti was a Writer, painter, and art historian; Eustachio Zanotti was a famous astronomer and hydraulic engineer.[7][8] His nephew was the philosopher and writer Manuel Lassala.[9]

Works

De viribus centralibus
  • La forza attrattiva delle idee (1747)
  • La filosofia morale secondo i peripatetici (1754)
  • Dell'arte poetica (1758)
  • Lettere famigliari in difesa della Felsina Pittrice
  • Delle lodi delle belle arti
  • Dialogo in difesa di G. Reni
  • De viribus centralibus (in Latin). Bologna: Lelio Dalla Volpe. 1762.
Giovanni Fantuzzi, Notizie della vita e degli scritti di Francesco Maria Zanotti, 1778

References

  1. ^ a b c Garin, Eugenio (2008). History of Italian Philosophy. Rodopi. pp. 719–21. ISBN 978-90-420-2321-5. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  2. ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE OF BOLOGNA AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" by Maria Cavazza. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 56 (1), p. 10 (2002) [1]
  3. ^ Museo Palazzo Poggi
  4. ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE OF BOLOGNA AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" by Maria Cavazza. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 56 (1), p. 16 (2002)
  5. ^ His portrait can be seen here[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE OF BOLOGNA AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" by Maria Cavazza. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 56 (1), p.16 (2002)
  7. ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE OF BOLOGNA AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" by Maria Cavazza. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 56 (1), p. 11, 14 (2002)
  8. ^ Zanotti, Giampietro Cavazzoni (1745). Vita di Eustachio Manfredi. Lelio dalla Volpe, Bologna.
  9. ^ Google Books website, Ad clarissimum virum Eustachium Zanottum Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti praesidem perpetuum carmina quibus celeberrimi ejusdem patrui Francisci Mariae Zanotti luctuosissimam mortem deflebat Emmanuel Lassala Romanae Arcadiae pastor
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