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the French campaigns in Italy after 1794, especially under Napoleon (no.
X, 10 January 1799, later reprinted separately). He outlines the extent of
the damage with detailed information of monetary losses suVered by the
individual dukedoms, kingdoms and provincial governments, through the
looting of banks and city coVers. With great eVect, he speciWes the cultural
damage done by pointing out that more than Wve hundred paintings by
Raphael, Titian, Correggio and Carraccio have been stolen. Famous libraries,
containing the collections of Haller’s herbal and anatomical plates,
Spallanzani’s library, and endless priceless volumes of manuscripts have
been dispersed from the Ambrosiana, the Vatican library, and countless
other institutions.
Mallet du Pan (1749–1800), Swiss political and social critic is generally
regarded as a pioneer of modern political journalism. He studied in Geneva,
but left an academic career for the more exciting career of a publicist.
After collaborations with Linguet on the Annales historiques, he founded the
Memoires historiques, politiques et litteraires sur l’etat present de l’Europe, which
later merged with the Mercure de France. As its political editor he supported
the aristocratic adherents of constitutional government, but gradually his
political opinions veered more to the right. He emigrated to Switzerland in
1792 and in 1798 to England, where he founded the Mercure Britannique,
which he edited until his early death in 1800.
A detailed index to the Wrst twenty-four issues is provided at the end of
volume three. Due to the death of Mallet du Pan the journal was discontinued
in 1800 and issue thirty-six concludes with his obituary.
See Cioranescu 42081, Graesse IV, 454, Hatin 282 and Martin & Walter 913 for
French edition; for further information see France Acomb, Mallet Du Pan, 1973.
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