I'm sorry you have insomnia, but I'm glad it's at least good for reading for you? It's the opposite for me: sleep deprivation wrecks my concentration.
I look forward to your write-up whenever you have time.
Also, looking through old Lady Mary comments, I found you saying, "Really must read a proper biography of hers" back in February. I'm glad this was on your wishlist as well, and many thanks to cahn for splitting the costs!
and Algarotti is busy composing a panegyric to whoever comes out on top in this war...
OH, ALGAROTTI, never change. :PP
Do we think Algarotti would have written an ode to MT had she won?
([That swan quote] is from when Algarotti has hightailed it out of Prussia for the first time because he‘s tired of waiting around for Fritz to conquer Silesia and instead becomes August III.‘s art collector in Dresden. While also designing porcellain figurines for MT‘s table decoration at least once, as I‘ve discovered through the dissertation about him, and hoping she‘ll ask him for more.
So yes, I believe it. :P Algarotti's letters to Fritz post-amicable breakup read like he's trying to stay on good terms, not like someone who's hugely invested in the outcomes of Fritz's wars, which he never had much patience for.
What I want to know, Algarotti, is: where's the ode? Fritz won, now pony up. ;)
So either there's a panegyric that we need to find, or Algarotti, who died only a year after the end of the war, was prevented by his health from finishing it.
Algarotti: Geez, the war wasn't supposed to take this long. Fritz: You're telling me!
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Re: Macaulay - MT
Date: 2020-09-04 08:27 pm (UTC)I look forward to your write-up whenever you have time.
Also, looking through old Lady Mary comments, I found you saying, "Really must read a proper biography of hers" back in February. I'm glad this was on your wishlist as well, and many thanks to
and Algarotti is busy composing a panegyric to whoever comes out on top in this war...
OH, ALGAROTTI, never change. :PP
Do we think Algarotti would have written an ode to MT had she won?
Well, to quote Fritz...
Oh most fickle and lightest swan in the world!
Or, to quote
([That swan quote] is from when Algarotti has hightailed it out of Prussia for the first time because he‘s tired of waiting around for Fritz to conquer Silesia and instead becomes August III.‘s art collector in Dresden. While also designing porcellain figurines for MT‘s table decoration at least once, as I‘ve discovered through the dissertation about him, and hoping she‘ll ask him for more.
So yes, I believe it. :P Algarotti's letters to Fritz post-amicable breakup read like he's trying to stay on good terms, not like someone who's hugely invested in the outcomes of Fritz's wars, which he never had much patience for.
What I want to know, Algarotti, is: where's the ode? Fritz won, now pony up. ;)
So either there's a panegyric that we need to find, or Algarotti, who died only a year after the end of the war, was prevented by his health from finishing it.
Algarotti: Geez, the war wasn't supposed to take this long.
Fritz: You're telling me!