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Excerpt from Giuseppe Baretti: With an Account of His Literary Friendships and Feuds in Italy and in England in the Days of Dr. Johnson The Italian portion of this biography is based, apart from Baretti's own writings, upon the Life by Custodi prefixed to his "Scritti scelti, inediti o rari di G. Baretti," and upon Piccioni's admirable researches, which embody and supplement practically all that is of value in the work of his predecessors. The English portion of Baretti's life I have endeavoured to reconstruct, as far as possible, from the available literature of the period; and in a biography intended for English readers this portion has naturally been made the most prominent. Baretti's lif...
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