Francesco Algarotti.

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The son of Rocco, a wealthy merchant, and Maria Mercati. After a few years in Venice, he studied in Rome for a year and only after the death of his father, at the age of 13, did he move to Bologna, where he found fertile ground to broaden and strengthen his taste, inclinations and thirst for knowledge.

His teachers were Eustachio Manfredi and Francesco Maria Zanotti, and also Iacopo Bartolomeo Beccari, who channelled him towards the study of experimental physics and medicine.His earliest writings were on astronomy in the Acts of the Bolognese Institute, but his inclination towards Newtonian science, considered, in the capital of Emilia, to be the continuation of the Galilean current, was already beginning to emerge.To deepen his knowledge of Greek, he moved to Padua for a few months to Lazarini's school, and then to Florence to that of A.M. Ricci. These years of dedication enriched his natur

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