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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mazzei , Philip 1730 -1816 (search)
Mazzei, Philip 1730-1816
Patriot; born in Tuscany in 1730; was a practising physician at Smyrna for a while, and was engaged in mercantile business in London in taly.
He formed a company for the purpose.
Jefferson was a member of it, and Mazzei bought an estate adjoining that of Monticello to try the experiment.
He persev a work on the History of politics in the United States, in 4 volumes.
In 1792 Mazzei was made privy councillor to the King of Poland; and in 1802 he received a pens t but weak, the tool and dupe of rogues.
In one of these letters, addressed to Mazzei, he declared that in place of that noble love of liberty and republican governm heads shorn by the harlot of England.
This letter was dated April 24, 1796.
Mazzei published an Italian translation of it in Florence, Jan. 1, 1797.
Thence it wa was used as political capital by the Federalists until the election of Jefferson to the Presidency of the United States in 1800.
Mazzei died in Pisa, March 19, 1816.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5 : (search)