September – Carlo Goldoni informs fellow playwright Francesco Albergati Capacelli that he is moving permanently from Venice to Paris, where he is appointed director of the Italian theatre.[1]
James Macpherson, "translator" – Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language[3]
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^Andrew S. Curran, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, Other Press, 2019, p. 196
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^This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 919–920.
^Dussinger, John A. "Richardson, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23582. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)