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	Bartolomeo Cristofori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic of Venice.
		Maffei said that "some professionals have not given this invention all the applause it merits," and goes on to say that its sound was felt to be too "soft" and "dull"--Cristofori was unable to make his instrument as loud as the competing harpsichord.
		Yet Maffei himself was an enthusiast for the piano, and the instrument did gradually catch on and increase in popularity, in part due to Maffei's efforts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bartolomeo_Cristofori (3701 words)

	Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei (June 1, 1675–February 11, 1755), Italian archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Verona.
		He studied for five years in Parma, at the Jesuit College, and afterwards from 1698 at Rome; and in 1703 - 1704 he took part as a volunteer in the war of succession, fighting on the Bavarian side at Donauwerth.
		Maffei afterwards devoted four years to travel in France, England, the Netherlands and Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francesco_Scipione,_marchese_di_Maffei (271 words)

	Marchese Francesco Scipione Maffei
		He began at an early age to write poetry which, however, was marred by the bad taste of the period, but association with such men as Pastorini and Maggi and the study of the great Italian poets brought about a change in his style.
		Maffei had already devoted some years to archaeological and artistic studies and in this connection had amassed in his palace a very valuable collection.
		In particular his scholarly publications on the history of his birthplace aroused such enthusiasm on the part of the Veronese that it was only with difficulty that he prevailed on them not to erect a statue to him during his lifetime.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/maffei,marchese_francesco_scipione.html (568 words)

	Marchese Di Maffei Francesco Scipione - LoveToKnow 1911
		FRANCESCO SCIPIONE MAFFEI, MARCHESE DI (1675-1755), Italian archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Verona on the 1st of June 1675.
		From 1718 he became specially interested in the archaeology of his native town, and his investigations resulted in the valuable Verona illustrate (1731-1732).
		Maffei afterwards devoted four years to travel in France, England, Holland and Germany.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marchese_Di_Maffei_Francesco_Scipione (128 words)

	Volterra - the Guarnacci Museum
		Maffei exhibited the artefacts according to 19 C criteria.
		The cinerary urns were and are still displayed according to the theme carved on the lower case of the urns and the other items according to their typology.
		The Mother and Child (the so-called kourotrophos Maffei) with a dedicatory inscription (III century B:C..) is particularly noteworthy.
	www.volterra.net /guarnacci_museum.htm (1117 words)

	Graecorum sigliae lapidariae. Verona, [Agostino Carattoni], : MAFFEI, (Scipione)
		First edition of Maffei's important work on the decipherment of Greek abbreviations found on classical inscriptions, which he believed had been neglected in favour of Roman ones by other scholars.
		Maffei himself transformed the collection into what has been described as the first modern, scientifically organised public museum.
		It was aquired by the city of Verona in 1883 and was reinstalled in a contemporary style in 1982.
	www.maggs.com /title/CO15821.asp (143 words)

	MAFFEI, Francesco Scipione., De gli Anfiteatri e singolarmente del Veronese, libri due ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		MAFFEI, Francesco Scipione., De gli Anfiteatri e singolarmente del Veronese, libri due...
		First edition of the first in depth study of the Verona amphitheatre; Maffei criticises in some detail forerunners in his field throughout the work.
		Maffei (1675-1755), the North Italian scholar and collector, specialised in studying the antiquities of his native Verona.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/AP944.html (209 words)

	The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The poet and journalist Scipione Maffei, in his enthusiastic 1711 description, named Cristofori's instrument a "gravicembalo col piano, e forte" ("harpsichord with soft and loud"), the first time it was called by its eventual name, pianoforte.
		Maffei commented that, because of its somewhat muted tone, Cristofori's piano was best suited for solos or to accompany a voice or single instrument, rather than for larger ensemble work.
		Maffei's description, which includes a diagram of Cristofori's action, was translated into German and included in Johann Mattheson's Critica musica of 1725, where it was probably read by Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), the important Saxon court organ builder.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/cris/hd_cris.htm (1010 words)

	Teatro: Tutte le informazioni su Teatro su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nel secolo delle riforme, anche la tragedia, genere estremamente regolato e considerato eccelso, che aveva dato prove dignitose, si evolvette.
		Scipione Maffei (Verona 1675-1755), contribuì alla riforma del teatro italiano con trattati teorici e quattro opere teatrali: due commedie, un dramma pastorale e la tragedia Merope (1713), punto di partenza per la riforma del teatro tragico.
		Occorreva però il temperamento insofferente di un intellettuale alla perpetua ricerca di se stesso, il piemontese Vittorio Alfieri, per fare della tragedia l'espressione di una moderna tensione libertaria, che si concretizzò nel conflitto fra il tiranno (qualsiasi principio di autorità, anche interiore) e l'uomo libero che afferma la propria dignità e libertà con la morte.
	www.encyclopedia.it /t/te/teatro.html (1328 words)

	Extraordinary Online Bulletin 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Maffei (1675-1755) wrote many works for the Italian stage before devoting himself to the archaeology of his native Verona.
		The Historiarum Indicarum, Maffei's principal work and 12 years in the writing, is concerned mainly with the Portuguese conquests, the Jesuit stations in India, the East Indies and the area around the Arabian Sea.
		Maffei's contemporary Valignano (author of Historia del principio y progresso de la Compania de Jesus en las Indias orientales, 1542-64) wrote, "Of all those who have so far written about Japan, none has done it with greater precision or in better order than Father G.P. Maffei" (quoted in Lach I, 326).
	www.livroraro.com /eob3/eob3pt17.htm (10767 words)

	Castelvecchio Museum: City Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One of the oldest public museums in Europe, the Lapidario (with collections of Greek, Etruscan, Paleo-Veneta and Roman, as well as Arab epigraphs) was founded in 1745 by one of Verona’s most illustrious figures, Scipione Maffei, whose personal collection formed the basis of the museum’s holdings.
		The initial transformation of this collection into a true museum was due to the efforts of Scipione Maffei; the museum was subsequently acquired by the city (1883) and was reinstalled in a contemporary style in 1982.
		The epigraphic materials and reliefs are arranged in chronological sections in the courtyard, from which one enters the Philharmonic theatre foyer, the underground level, and two upper-level rooms.
	www.comune.verona.it /Castelvecchio/cvsito/english/mcivici1.htm (226 words)

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		Back to article: MAFFEI, FRANCESCO SCIPIONE, MARCHESE DI (1675-1755)
		From 1718 he became specially interested in the archaeology of his native town, and his investigations resulted in the valuable Verona illustrata (1731–1732)• Maffei afterwards devoted four years to travel in France, England, Holland and Germany.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=42329 (150 words)

	Volterra: Etruscan Guarnacci Museum
		A cinerary urn, III century b.C. The first Museum was housed in Palazzo Maffei (in Via Matteotti then Via Guidi) purchased by Guarnacci to house his collection.
		Enriched by donations, purchases and further excavations, the director Niccolò Maffei transferred the museum to the Palazzo Desideri Tangassi in 1877.
		Maffei exhibited the artefacts according to 19th century criteria.
	www.comune.volterra.pi.it /english/museiit/metru.html (1038 words)

	Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cristofori's invention soon attracted public attention as the result of a journal article written by Scipione Maffei and published 1711 in Giornale de'letterati d'Italia of Venice.
		The latter publication was perhaps the triggering event in the spread of the fortepiano to German-speaking countries.
		The piano action Maffei described does not match that found in surviving Cristofori instruments, and Maffei admitted having made his diagram from memory.
	justmeandmyblog.blogdrive.com /comments?id=14 (2016 words)

	Law, antiquariaat Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This alteration was ordered by Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) and Muselli and executed by the architect Lodovico Perini; it was finished in 1726.
		This Chapter library is not 'just a library': the same Scipione Maffei who ordered the alteration of the library, had made a major discovery in 1713.
		On old copboards in the old Chapter library, he had found late-antique and early Christian manuscripts from the 5th till 9th century, stored there centuries earlier, apparently to protect them against danger of flooding of the river Adige.
	www.forum-hes.nl /forum/main_stocklist.phtml/subject/121/1/Law.html (2021 words)

	Maffei Francesco Scipione - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Maffei Francesco Scipione - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Maffei strove to introduce elements of Greek and...
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	The Programmer
		He called upon a writer in the Italian Republic of Letters, Scipione Maffei, to write an article on his new instrument.
		Basically, Maffei was to trying to get as much publicity to Cristofori and his new instrument as possible (Parakilas, 11).
		The process was documented by Italian writer Maffei in a detailed article, and the solution was tested by the keyboard musicians of the time.
	mc.msj.edu /StudentWeb/caudiln/PianoPaper.html (1122 words)

	Della Formazione de' Fulmini Trattato del sig. marchese Scipione Maffei, Raccolto da varie sue Lettere, In alcune delle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		marchese Scipione Maffei, Raccolto da varie sue Lettere, In alcune delle quali si tratta anche degl' Infetti rigenerantisi, e de' Pesci di mare su i monti, e più a lungo dell' Elettricità.
		MAFFEI, SCIPIONE, Della Formazione de' Fulmini Trattato del sig.
		¶ Collection of fifteen letters on the origins of lightning by the enlightened polymath Maffei (1675-1755), "said by Grimelli (Storia) to contain all the anterior letters on Lightning published by him, i.e.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/cum/53510.shtml (189 words)

	Italian Drama in the Eighteenth Century
		This organization attempted to inject new life into tragedy, to broaden the field, and to abolish the old-time stage trappings.
		Among the few names which deserve to be remembered is that of Scipione Maffei (1675-1775), who possessed undisputed talent combined with sincere feeling.
		His tragedy Merope (1713) not only won great success, but aroused the admiration of Voltaire, and inspired the English John Hume with the idea of Douglas.
	www.theatredatabase.com /18th_century/italian_drama_001.html (830 words)

	Francesco Maffei (1605 - 1660) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Francesco Maffei trained in Vicenza with his father and mostly worked out of his native city.
		He painted political allegories and religious works that were influenced by Mannerist painters such as Paolo Veronese, Alessandro Magnasco, Parmigianino, and Bellange.
		In 1657, Maffei moved to Padua and died there of the plague.
	wwar.com /masters/m/maffei-francesco.html (370 words)

	Ars Libri, Ltd.
		The erudite antiquarian Scipione Maffei, author of Verona Illustrata’ (1731-1732) corresponded with the most important scholars of his time on archaeological and paleographical matters, and established a lapidary museum of antique sculpture and stone inscriptions in many languages, on which this work is based.
		An elaborate compendium of antique inscriptions and illustrations of celebrated architectural monuments, vases, cameos, statuary, bas-reliefs, coins etc., it is chiefly engraved by the Venetian Franceso Zucchi, who had worked for Frederick-Augustus I, King of Saxony, before his collaboration with Maffei.
		Internally a fresh, crisp copy, with the fine English rococo ex-libris of Thomas Brand, to whom the English collector and antiquary Thomas Hollis bequeathed most of his property (including a great collection of paintings by Canaletto).
	www.arslibri.com /artlit3.htm (1833 words)

	Cristofori
		However it is likely that J.S. Bach had played Lotti's Cristofori in Dresden several decades earlier.
		Maffei stated that Cristofori's "gravicembalo col piano e forte" was suitable for use in every way, and Lotti may well have brought the instrument to Dresden for use in performances of his operas, perhaps particularly for recitative accompaniment.
		Please http://www.ptg.org/museum/cristo.htm and click on the little image for an enlarged picture of the 1722 piano built in Florence and now in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali in Rome.
	www.scn.org /icemf/page4.html (422 words)

	CRISTOFORI, INVENTOR OF THE PIANO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Harpsichord players found the touch difficult to master and the tone similar, but less brilliant and softer, than the best harpsichords of the day.
		In the late 1730's Gottfrled Silberman read a German language account of Maffei's article and started experimenting on the new design.
		Bach tried one of his pianos but did not like the heavy touch and weak treble.
	www.cantos.org /Piano/History/cristofori.html (441 words)

	The Italian Settecento
		Appended is a dictionary of iconology and an essay on “Rhyme and Prose” by Scipione Maffei.
		By the mid 18th century, the debate between Italian Enlightenment philosophers and traditional Catholicism boiled down to a conflict between reason and superstition.
		A series of three treatises denying the reality of magic and witchcraft, crowned by the present book, was the last great campaign in Scipione Maffei's illustrious career.
	www.rarebookstudio.com /Settecento.htm (2546 words)

	Martayan Lan Rare Books
		Due Lettere di Fisica al Signor Marchese Scipione Maffei.
		The work is in the form of an extended letter to Scipione Maffei, a central and prolific figure in 18th-century Italian science and letters, whose influential work against the existence of magic cleared the way for experiment with such apparently mysterious creations as the Bologna flask.
		A second much briefer letter treats the speed of sound, with references to Flamsteed, Halley and Gassendi.
	martayanlan.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi/Books/all/28/23/1419?start=0 (214 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Pompei, Alessandro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1728 he was admitted to the Accademia dei Filotimi in Verona, and from this time onwards he held several important appointments on the city council.
		After a trip to Rome in 1729, he began to show a preference for architecture, which he had studied as an amateur, probably under the influence of Scipione Maffei.
		During this period he was also commissioned by Maffei to design the fluted Doric Loggia (1734–46; much altered) for the courtyard of the Museo Lapidario, Verona.
	www.artnet.com /library/06/0685/T068579.asp (351 words)

	Sancti Hilarii Pictaviensis episcopi opera studio...,St. Hilary of Poitiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Coustant’s preface describes the palaeographic techniques and editorial criteria used in the edition, and the page shown is from Coustant’s discussion of the manuscript tradition.
		This copy is from the 1730 Verona edition which contained the Maurist text with additional material edited by the Marchese Francesco Scipione Maffei (1675-1755).
		Though Maffei is best known for his interest in Italian theater, he also collected manuscripts and was a keen archaeologist.
	www.hmml.org /exhibits/Maurists/Hilary.htm (154 words)

	Roman Verona
		The outer circle, of which just four arches over three storeys remain, collapsed following the earthquakes of 1117 and 1183, whereas the inside seating is the work of an admirable restoration project begun in the XV Century.
		he Maffei Museum, on the opposite side of the square, in the coutyard of the PhilarmonicTheatre, houses an exhibition of Greek, Roman and Mediaeval epigraphs collected by the Veronese scholar Scipione Maffei in the 1700s.
		Behind the arena itself, in the small square called "Mura di Gallieno", as also the west in Corte Farina, one can see substantial remains of the Gallieno walls, built in all haste by the Emperor Gallieno.
	www.intesys.it /Tour/Eng/VeronaRomana.html (345 words)

	Icicle Creek Music Center \| Music in the Cascades
		However it is quite likely that J.S. Bach had played Lo tti's Cristofori in Dresden several decades earlier.
		Maffei stated that Cristofori's "gravicembalo col piano e forte" was suitable for use in every way, and Lotti almost certainly brought the instrument to Dresden for use in performances of his operas, perhaps particularly for recitative accompaniment.
		Please http://www.ptg.org/museum/cristo.htm and click on the little image for an enlarged pic ture of the 1722 piano built in Florence and now in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali in Rome.
	www.icicle.org /conc/event.php?event_id=108 (331 words)

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