Talk:Francesco Barsanti

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I suggest deleting the mentions of Boccherini (possibly), but certainly Puccini and Catalani - neither of them were born until well after Barsanti had died, and I don't see what relevance they have to the late 17th/early-mid 18th centuries.

The whole article is an obviously very badly translated version of an Italian original. There are much more worthwhile discussions of Barsanti's life and work in a couple of English-language scholarly works.

A REALLY BAD BIO
The existing biography was extremely poor, and I have basically gutted it to correct the worst faults and replace them with decent info. Barsanti's life is nowhere near as well documented as one might wish, but there ARE a number of 18th and 19th century sources, as well as modern scholarly articles which together provide a reasonable picture of the man's life and work. Luigi Nerici's history of Lucca is probably the source of much of what was on the page before I edited it (the references to his return visits to Lucca in 1717 and 1718 appear nowhere else); but Hawkins should be consulted, as well as Burney (Fanny, not her father Dr. Charles, who didn't mention him at all, in spite of knowing him well and teaching his daughter), and a number of others. Ian G. Sharman's lengthy article in the IAML journal BRIO is probably the most complete and well-researched modern bio of Barsanti extant, except for my own which I can't paste in here because it appears in a copyrighted publication.

Barsanti died in 1775 (see Burney, F., diary entry May 5 1775), not 1770; he left London for Edinburg in 1735 but returned about 1743 (see Hawkins). He did not marry a 'woman of the Scottish aristocracy' but a commoner named 'Jean' about whom nothing else is known(see Sharman).

As to the previous comment on this Talk page, there are no mentions of Boccherini, Puccini, or Catalani in the article at all, and in all my research on Barsanti I have never run across anything from either Puccini or Catalani about him (although Sharman mentions Boccherini's comments as being probably inaccurate). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Recorder485 (talk • contribs) 00:25, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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