Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… to follow, laid the groundwork for the impact he would later have on London society. Travelling set him up with enduring friendships and provided inspiration for the clubs he was to found. On his first trip to Italy, he befriended the Abbé Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769), a friendship that would hold until the Abbé’s death in 1769. Through Niccolini, Dashwood also got to know Montesquieu … While it is said that Dashwood developed ‘an acute antipathy towards the Roman Catholic Church’, 16 his longstanding friendship with the Abbé Niccolini weakens such assertions. Fragments of Medmenham’s cellar-books do hint at ample …
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