Gian Vincenzo Gravina | Italian author | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution to Italian literature

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  In Italian literature: The world of learning
  Literary criticism also attracted attention; Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Vico, Maffei, Muratori, and several others, while continuing to advocate the imitation of the classics, realized that such imitation should be cautious and thus anticipated critical standpoints that were later to come into favour.
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history of Italian Enlightenment

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  In Italy: Political thought and early attempts at reform
  Among its more famous members, Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, and Giambattista Vico gained renown by launching juridical, historical, aesthetic, and “scientific” critiques of society. Vico’s Scienza nuova (1725; The New Science), the most enduring work produced by this group, found tepid reception in its own day, and the…
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patronage of Metastasio

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  In Pietro Metastasio
  …improvisation attracted the attention of Gian Vincenzo Gravina, a man of letters who made him his heir adoptive and Hellenized his name into Pietro Metastasio.
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