L’Osservatore

Italian periodical

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place in Italian literature

  • Gabriele D'Annunzio
    In Italian literature: The Enlightenment (Illuminismo)

    …two periodicals—La Gazzetta Veneta and L’Osservatore—he presented a lively chronicle of Venetian life and indicated a practical moral with much good sense. Giuseppe Baretti—an extremely controversial figure who published a critical journal called La Frusta Letteraria (“The Literary Whip”), in which he castigated “bad authors”—had learned much through a lengthy…

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role of Gozzi

  • In Gasparo, Count Gozzi

    …chronicle of Venetian life, and L’Osservatore (1761–62), a literary, philosophical, and theatrical review containing character sketches and satirical works.

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