La Gazzetta Veneta

Italian periodical

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La Gazzetta Veneta was an 18th-century Italian periodical published in Venice from 1760 to 1761. It was primarily written and published by Gasparo Gozzi, an Italian poet, prose writer, journalist, and critic.1

Gozzi's periodicals were inspired by the style of English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. La Gazzetta Veneta served as a chronicle of Venetian life, offering observations and commentary in a journalistic style that brought Enlightenment ideas to Italy. The publication aimed to engage readers with literary, philosophical, and theatrical reviews, often featuring character sketches and satirical works.12

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Gasparo, Count Gozzi
…those of Addison and Steele: La Gazzetta Veneta (1760–61), a 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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…those of Addison and Steele: La Gazzetta Veneta (1760–61), a 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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Italian literature
The Enlightenment (Illuminismo)
…and in his 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…
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…and in his 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…
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