Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (, - ), better known with pseudonym of Voltaire, it was one the a lot important and influential, let alone most fine and point hinge of.

The name from camabito he in in Voltaire it would be to mean:

anagram of Arouet LJ (the jeune, the young person) in archaic letters in which J the U was written and wrote V, AROVET THEM becomes VOLTAIRE
the name of a possessed small feudo from the mother

Biography

Of humanistic, coming from formation from a rich bourgeois family, it studied near the giansenisti and the Jesuits of the rinomato college Louis-le-Grand and it came introduced young in the "Societé du Temple", famous cenacolo of to guideline libertino. The happened one of the rappresentazione of its first tragedy, Edipo/Oedipe (), the yields celebre and appreciated.

It was imprisoned two times (- and in ) to Bastille, to cause (before the time) of the irriverenza expressed in backs in the comparisons of resisting. With the publication of the poema The Ligue of , written during the imprisonment, pension from part of the king obtained the allocation of one. The work will come newly published with the title it of Enriade in .

It was esiliato in (-) where, with the acquaintance of culture men democratic, writers and philosophers like Robert Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, it matured contrary illuministe ideas toabsolutism feudale of . In it wrote Letters on English (or philosophical Letters), for which it came of the new condemned, being be a work of reference against the old regimen.

Statue of Voltaire to of

Still esule in Lorena (because of the work History of Carl XII of ), it wrote the tragedies Bruto and The dead women of Cesar, which they followed and Merope, the treaty The elements of the philosophy of Newton beyond to the storiografica work The century of Luigi XIV. Thanks to the riavvicinamento with the court, favorite give Madame de Pompadour, in it was name storiografo and member ofAcadémie Française. From to soggiornò to , to Geneva, and in to Losanna near the castle of Ferney. It is of this period the drawing up of the tragedy Oreste (), considered one of the smaller works of the theatre of Voltaire.

Rich and by now famous, divenne a point of reference for all illuminista. It entered in controversy with the catholics for the parody of in The pulzella of Orléans, and expressed its positions in Candid that is the optimism (), in which polemizzò with the optimism of . The novel more remains the succeeded literary expression of its thought, contrary to every provvidenzialismo or fatalism. From it began an upset controversy here against superstizione and fanatismo in favor of one greater tolerance and justice.

To such purpose it wrote Treaty on the tolerance () and Philosophical dictionary (). Between the other works, storys Zadig (), Micromega (), The man from the forty shield (). The teatrali works Zaira (), Alzira (), Merope (), beyond the poema Poema on the disaster of Lisbona (). And finally, the important storiografiche works The century of Luigi XIV () and Test on the customs and the spirit of the nations (). Its remain rest to Panthéon where they have been transports to you after the revolution. In spite of the triumph, to the dead women the ecclesiastical interment was denied to it.

Thought

Works

Edipo,
Enriade,
History of Carl XII,
Bruto,
Zaira,
The tempio of the taste,
English letters or Philosophical letters,
Adelaide of the Guesclin,
Maometto,
Mondain,
Epistle on Newton,
Treaty of metaphysics,
The figliol prodigal,
Test on the nature of the fire,
Elements of the philosophy of Newton,
Zulime,
The fanatismo or Maometto,
Merope,
Zadig,
The world goes as it goes,
The century of Luigi XIV,
Micromega,
Poema on the disaster of Lisbona,
Test on the customs and the spirit of the nations,

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