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Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiorre Salvemini di Castiglione FRS (January 15, 1708 Castiglione del Valdarno – October 11, 1791 Berlin)〔 * 〕 was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. ==Life== He graduated from the University of Pisa where he studied law and mathematics, earning a doctorate in 1729. As apparently an atheist, he fled the Inquisition to Switzerland in 1736.〔(''Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: liberty, patriotism, and the common good'' ), Editors John Christian Laursen, H. W. Blom, Luisa Simonutti, University of Toronto Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8020-9177-2〕 He taught in Lausanne, where he became a Calvinist, before moving to Utrecht in 1751, and then Berlin in 1763, where he remained for the rest of his life.〔St Andrews〕 In 1745, he married Elizabeth du Fresne with whom he had three children, the only surviving child was Maximilian Friedrich Gustav Adolf Salvemini (see below). In 1757, Elizabeth died, and he married Madeleine Raven two years later. In November 1787 he suffered a stroke. He met the Scottish diarist James Boswell in both Utrecht and Berlin, with Boswell recording several anecdotes and conversations.〔St Andrews〕 His son Frederick Salvemini de Castillon (1747-1814) became also a member Berlin Academy and a writer for ''Diderot's Encyclopédie''.〔''Mémoires de l’Académie de Berlin'', année 1804, p. 319.〕〔François-Joseph Fétis, ''Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique'', Paris, Firmin-Didot, t., 1883, p. 208.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giovanni Salvemini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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