A conversazione is a "social gathering [predominantly] held by [a] learned or art society"[2] for conversation and discussion, especially about the arts, literature, medicine, and science.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
- It would not be easy to devise a happier way [than the conversazione] of bringing novelties at once under practical criticism—of making the outliers of science acquainted with the centre, of enabling investigators to compare operations and discuss facts and speculations, and of giving occasion for renewal of intercourse and removal of misunderstandings. …
[The] tangible gain to science [from the coversazione is that] inventors and experimentalists … hear [directly] what contemporaries say of their schemes and experiments, and much can be said and done with advantage amid the free talk of a general gathering which could not be permitted in the formal meeting of a scientific society. (Nature, 5 May 1870.[10])
- It would not be easy to devise a happier way [than the conversazione] of bringing novelties at once under practical criticism—of making the outliers of science acquainted with the centre, of enabling investigators to compare operations and discuss facts and speculations, and of giving occasion for renewal of intercourse and removal of misunderstandings. …
- ^ Artist William McConnell, 1858 Wood-engraving.
- ^ Alberti (2003), p.208.
- ^ Conversazione on "Hypnotism" at the Royal Manchester Institution, The Medical Times, Vol.10, No.243, (18 May 1844), pp.137-139.
- ^ Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society: Conversazione, Vol.8, No.8, The Pharmaceutical Journal, (1 February 1849), pp.367-369.
- ^ College of Dentists of England: Conversazione—January 10, The Dental Review, Vol.2, (March 1860), pp.133-134.
- ^ Royal College of Physicians of London; Obstetrical Society of London; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1867). Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments : exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London : held by permission at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th 1866. Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. London : Longmans, Green.
- ^ Scientific Conversazioni, Scientific Opinion, Vol.3, (20 April 1870), p.357.
- ^ Auckland Museum and Institute, New Zealand Herald, (Friday 17 September 1880), p.5.
- ^ The Conversazione of the Institute of Civil Engineers, The Engineer, Vol.83, (28 May 1897), p.550.
- ^ Sir Edward Sabine's Conversazione, Nature, vol.2, No.27, (5 May 1870), pp.8-9.