Yeah, Algarotti got disillusioned fast. :( That, not the invasion of Saxony, is why I think dying in 1740 might have been good for the Fritz/Suhm relationship.
Also, Algarotti in Prussia was in a different position than most of Europe, called: "I could be next."
See also, this excerpt from my Algarotti write-up:
Algarotti still in Italy: P.S. Still love you! (Plz don't have your agents arrest me outside your country like you did Voltaire.) Fritz: Not sure why you won't come back, but love you too!
Even with Algarotti's diplomatic personality in general, I read the last years of his correspondence with Fritz as "Don't gratuitously piss off the powerful and short-tempered king. Just remember the good times and keep him remembering the good times."
Maupertuis partisans: maybe, I don't know the situation in enough detail? But what I suspect is that it started out Voltaire partisans vs. Maupertuis partisans, but then the biggest Maupertuis partisan was Fritz, and then it stopped being about Maupertuis to most people. Much like Franz Ferdinand partisans were pretty thin on the ground in the trenches of WWI.
Re: Dueling
Also, Algarotti in Prussia was in a different position than most of Europe, called: "I could be next."
See also, this excerpt from my Algarotti write-up:
Algarotti still in Italy: P.S. Still love you! (Plz don't have your agents arrest me outside your country like you did Voltaire.)
Fritz: Not sure why you won't come back, but love you too!
Even with Algarotti's diplomatic personality in general, I read the last years of his correspondence with Fritz as "Don't gratuitously piss off the powerful and short-tempered king. Just remember the good times and keep him remembering the good times."
Maupertuis partisans: maybe, I don't know the situation in enough detail? But what I suspect is that it started out Voltaire partisans vs. Maupertuis partisans, but then the biggest Maupertuis partisan was Fritz, and then it stopped being about Maupertuis to most people. Much like Franz Ferdinand partisans were pretty thin on the ground in the trenches of WWI.