 | English literature - 1857 - 610 pages
...tradition alone. When, therefore, in the year 1734, some noblemen and gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a Society under the name of ' the Dilettanti,' it is not surprising that they... | |
 | 1832 - 574 pages
...society. It commences as follows : " In the year 1 734, some gentlemen who had travelled to Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a society under the name of the DILETTANTI ; and agreed upon such regulations... | |
 | Pickering Dodge - Sculptors - 1850 - 404 pages
...as the year 1734, in the reign of George the Second, several gentlemen who had travelled into Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a society under the name of the Dilettanti, for the promotion of arts, science... | |
 | Pickering Dodge - Sculptors - 1850 - 376 pages
...the year 1 734, in the reign of George the Second, several gentlemen who had travelled into Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a society under the name of the Dilettanti, for the promotion of arts, science... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...disparagement and ridicule, is quite modern. In the year 1734 some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a Society, under the name of the "Dilettanti," and agreed upon such regulations... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...Society, which has now existed some 130 years, is due to certain gentlemen, who had travelled much in Italy, and were desirous of encouraging at home...those objects which had contributed so much to their intellectual gratification abroad. Accordingly, in the year 1 734, they formed themselves into a Society,... | |
 | John Timbs - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1872 - 646 pages
...Society, which has now existed some 130 years, is due to certain gentlemen, who had travelled much in Italy, and were desirous of encouraging at home...those objects which had contributed so much to their intellectual gratification abroad. Accordingly, in the year 1734, they formed themselves into a Society,... | |
 | John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - Oxford (England) - 1879 - 466 pages
...editors, and in some of the inscriptions, particularly that of the Parian Chronicle, supplied the lacuna by many ingenious conjectures. " His next publication...encouraging at home a taste for those objects which contributed so much to their entertainment abroad. On a report of the state of this Society's finances... | |
 | Adolf Theodor F. Michaelis - 1882 - 898 pages
...the foundation of the Society 1734" (more probably 1733), "some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a Society under the name of The Dilettanti, and agreed upon such resolutions... | |
 | Adolf Michaelis - Sculpture, Ancient - 1882 - 248 pages
...probably in December, AD 1733. 1734" (more probably 1733), "some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad, formed themselves into a Society under the name of Tlu Dilettanti, and agreed upon such resolutions... | |
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In the year 1734, some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those objects which had contributed so much to their entertainment abroad... 
