Fortunato Felice

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Fortunato Bartolommeo Felice (1723 - 1789), 2^nd Comte de Panzutti, also known as Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice, was an Italian nobleman, a famed author, and a scientist.

[edit] Biography

Forunato Felice was born in Rome to a Neapolitan family. He studied at Rome and Naples under the Jesuits and in 1746 became a successful professor of physics at Naples after taking orders at Rome.

After rescuing the imprisoned Countess Panzutti ^[1], Felice fled to Berne, became a Protestant, and established a famous press at Yverdon in 1762.

[edit] Bibliography

• Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines (Yverdon, Switzerland. 42 volumes, 6 volumes Supplement, and 10 volumes of plates, 1775-1780), with the assistance of Leonhard Euler, Charles François Dupuis, Jérôme Lalande, Albrecht von Haller, et al.
• Mémoires de la Société oeconomique de Berne (24 volumes, 1763-72)
• Le Bacha de Bude (1765)
• De Newtonian Attractione, adversus Hambergen (1757)^{[citation needed]}
• Quadro filosofico della religione cristiana (1757)^{[citation needed]}
• Sul modo di formare la mente ed il cuore dei fanciuli (1763)^{[citation needed]}
• Principii del diritto della natura a delle genti (1769)^{[citation needed]}
• Lezioni di logica (1770)^{[citation needed]}
• Elementi del governo interiore di uno stato (1781)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/7_2002/donato.html Rewriting Heresy in the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon 1770-1780

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.