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Serendipity Horace Walpole (24 September 1717 –1797) - English man of letters. He was the first to use the word “
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Serendipity Horace Walpole (24 September 1717 –1797) - English man of letters. He was the first to use the word “
The Three Princes of Serendip
The Three Princes of Serendip
The Three Princes of Serendip
I tre principi di Serendippo was published in Venice in 1557 by a printer called Michele Tramezzino who claimed that one Christoforo Armeno had translated the poem “Hasht-Bihisht” from Persian into Italian
It has been suggested that the Italian used Serendippo in the title of his book because it conveyed an exotic flavour
“In ancient times there existed in the…
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Serendipity: a word coined in January 1754
Serendipity: a word coined in January 1754
Serendipity means the making of happy and unexpected discoveries by accident
The word was coined in January 1754 by Horace Walpole, (son of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole) , who used it in a letter to a friend. He formed it from the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,” whose heroes, he said, “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things…
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