Talk:Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti

Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti lived in London and Turin, Italy. He was a friend of Samuel Johnson for some thirty years. His work reflected the importance of being bilingual as an intellectual and a noble in his time period. He was cited in Life of Samuel Johnson as Joseph Baretti. Indeed, after doing a bit of searching on JSTOR which I'm lucky enough to have access to as a college student, I believe that he used this name while living in London. He used it to identify himself when writing to Johnson in the JSTOR citation below.

Two Letters from Giuseppe Baretti to Samuel Johnson Alan T. McKenzie PMLA, Vol. 86, No. 2. (Mar., 1971), pp. 218-224. Stable URL:

I came here after doing a search to find out who this fellow Joseph Baretti was after coming across a quotation at QuotationsPage. "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

My heart goes out to the fellow; though I feel self-righteous and cynical to say so, I know what he means. --EmJo42 19:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Article Improvement
Hi! I am a student of a university class on History of English Culture and as part of my exam I chose to work on the improvement of Baretti's article. I will add a paragraph on his trial for murder dated 1769. For now, these are the sources I am going to use:

- Tim Hitchcock & Robert Shoemaker, Tales from the Hanging Court, Hodder Education 2007

- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 12 October 2015), October 1769, trial of Joseph Baretti (t17691018-9)

If you have any suggestion, please let me know here. Micheladv92 (talk) 16:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

"Therefore, he stroke her hand..."
A lot of this article is oddly expressed. "Therefore he stroke her hand..." I guess this should be "Therefore he struck her hand..." Any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.15.39.58 (talk) 18:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)