Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (born 1718)

Saverio Bettinelli

Italian Jesuit writer (1718–1808)

Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte.…