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Francesco Maggiotto
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thumb|"Self-portrait (Autoritratto) with his pupils Pedrini and Florian" (1792), Gallerie dell'Accademia
Francesco Fedeli, nicknamed Francesco Maggiotto or just Maggiotto (1738 – 13 September, 1805) was an Italian painter and academic from Venice.
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[...] I think that there is no body in nature that lets entirely and unhinderedly flow the electrical fluid, but we should settle for the materials that lose less of it.
From Lettera di Francesco Maggiotto pittore, ed accademico della pubblica Accademia di pittura, scultura, ed architettura di Venezia, e della Clementina di Bologna all'illustre professore nell'Università di Padova il signor abate Giuseppe Toaldo, sopra una nuova costruzione di macchina elettrica, 1781, p. 10.
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