Fortunato Felice

Fortunato Felice

Fortunato Bartolommeo Felice (1723 - 1789), 2nd Comte de Panzutti, also known as "Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice" and "Francesco Placido Bartolomeo De Felice", was an Italian nobleman, a famed author, scientist, and said to have been one of the most important publishers of the 18th century [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2904677 | Letters of De Felice by Claudia Donato] .

Biography

Forunato Felice was born in Rome to a Neapolitan family as the eldest of six children on August 24th 1723. He was confirmed in 1733 in the parish of St. Celso e Giuliano. He studied at Rome and Naples under the Jesuits, taught by Fortunato da Brescia. On the 28th May 1746 he was ordained by papal dispensation. Through his studies at the monastery of San Francesco in Ripa, he discovered a love of Physics, becoming friends with Celestino Galiani. Later Galiani appointed de Felice chair of Ancient and Modern Geography as well as the chair of experimental physics and mathematics at Naples University. There he became friends with the Prince Raimondo di Sangro who aided him in his translation of the physicist John Arbuthnot's works from Latin.

After rescuing the imprisoned Countess Panzutti [http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/7_2002/donato.html Rewriting Heresy in the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon 1770-1780] , Felice fled to Berne, became a Protestant, and established a famous press at Yverdon in 1762.

Portrait

One of the few depictions of de Felice is held by the Achenbach Foundation in the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts. A Latin and 18th century swiss inscription by one of his sons, Carolus de Felice reads:

[http://search3.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?keywords=felice&artist=&country=&period=&sort=&start=1&position=1&record=25735]

Bibliography

* "Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines" (Yverdon, Switzerland. 42 volumes, 6 volumes "Supplement", and 10 volumes of plates, 1775-1780), with the assistance of Leonhard Euler, Charles François Dupuis, Jérôme Lalande, Albrecht von Haller, et al.
* "Mémoires de la Société oeconomique de Berne" (24 volumes, 1763-72)
* "Le Bacha de Bude" (1765)
* "De Newtonian Attractione, adversus Hambergen" (1757)
* "Quadro filosofico della religione cristiana" (1757)
* "Sul modo di formare la mente ed il cuore dei fanciuli" (1763)
* "Principii del diritto della natura a delle genti" (1769)
* "Lezioni di logica" (1770)
* "Elementi del governo interiore di uno stato" (1781) [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:H78WjGH02J0J:www.alessandrodefelice.it/biografia/Fortunato%2520Bartolomeo%2520De%2520Felice.doc+De+Newtonian+Attractione,+adversus+Hambergen&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk&client=firefox-a]

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