Fortunato Felice
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Fortunato Bartolommeo Felice (1723-89) was an Italian author.
[edit] Biography
Felice was born in Rome, of a Neopolitan 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. In the wake of a tempestuous affair with Countess Panzutti, he ran away to Bern, became a Protestant, and established a famous press at Yverdon in 1762.
[edit] Bibliography
- Dizionario universale regionato delle umane cognizioni (42 volumes, 1770-75)
- supplemento to the dizionario (six volumes, 1775-76)
- Tavole (ten volumes, 1775-80), with the assistance of Euler, Dupuis, Lalande, Haller, and others.
- sul modo di formare la mente ed il cuore dei fanciuli (1763)
- Principii del diritto della natura a delle genti (1769)
- Lezioni di logica (1770)
- Elementi del governo interiore di uno stato (1781)
- Quadro filosofico della religione cristiana (1757)
- De Newtonian Attractione, adversus Hambergen (1757)
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
