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Girolamo Tartarotti

1706 – 1761

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Lived 1706 – 1761 (aged 54–55). Girolamo Tartarotti was a writer and historian.

Girolamo Tartarotti (; 1706–1761) was an Italian abbot, Neo-Platonist, and writer, primarily famed for his works on witchcraft.

Life Tartarotti was born at Rovereto near Trent and studied at the University of Padua. For a time, he formed part of the entourage of Marco Foscarini, who later served as doge of Venice. upholding the existence of sorcery

Works Abbot Tartarotti's Three Books on the Nocturnal Congress of the Lamia—composed in 1748 but delayed from publication by the Venetian Inquisition until 1750 He had the sermons of the Jesuit Georg Gaar, one of the clerics responsible for Sister Maria's execution, translated into Italian so as to publish his own attacks against the man's points. He defended the existence of witchcraft, however, and won the vast majority of Italian academics to his side of the debate.

Ragionamento intorno alla poesia lirica toscana (1728) Idea della logica degli scolastici e dei moderni (1731) Delle disfide letterarie, o sia pubbliche difese di conclusioni (1735) De origine Ecclesiae tridentinae et primis eius episcopis (1743) Memorie istoriche intorno alla vita e morte de' santi Sisinio, Martirio ed Alessandro (1745) De versione Rufiniana Historiae ecclesiasticae Eusebii Caesariensis dissertatio, in qua Valesianae interpretationis dignitas et praestantia vindicatur (1748) . De auctoribus ab Andrea Dandulo laudatis in Chronico Veneto (1751) . Lettera di un giornalista d'Italia ad un giornalista oltramontano sopra il libro intitolato: Vindiciae Romani Martyrologii uscito in Verona (1751) Memorie antiche di Rovereto e dei luoghi circonvicini (1754) Apologia delle Memorie antiche di Rovereto (1758) Dell'origine della Chiesa di Aquileia (1759) Lettera seconda di un giornalista d'Italia ad un giornalista oltramontano sopra il libro intitolato: Notizie istorico-critiche intorno al b.m. Adalpreto Vescovo di Trento (1760)

Published in Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici edited by Angelo Calogerà: Relazione d'un manoscritto dell'Istoria manoscritta di Giovanni Diacono veronese (1738) Dissertazione intorno all'arte critica (1740) Lettera intorno all'Eloquenza italiana di mons. Fontanini (1741) Lettera al sig. N.N. intorno alla sua tragedia intitolata il Costantino (1741) Lettera intorno a detti o sentenze attribuite ad autori di cui non sono (1741) Lettera intorno alla differenza delle voci nella lingua italiana (1745) Lettera intorno ad una particolare significazione degli avverbi fere e quasi nelle lingue italiana e latina (1748)

Published posthumously: Osservazioni sopra la Sofonisba del Trissino con prefazione del cav. Clementino Vannetti (1784) Rime scelte dall'abate Girolamo Tartarotti (1785) La conclusione dei frati francescani riformati (1785) Dialoghi della lingua latina Annotazioni al Dialogo delle false esercitazioni delle scuole d'Aonio Paleario (1795)

Legacy Leo Martello revived the concept of witchcraft (specifically the Italian Stregheria) as a survival of the cult of Diana in the 1970s.

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Italian literary (1706-1761)

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Girolamo Tartarotti was born in 1706 in Rovereto.

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Girolamo Tartarotti died on 16 May 1761 in Rovereto.

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Girolamo Tartarotti was a writer and historian.

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