page_title: Stefano Zannowich
hierarchical_section_title: Stefano Zannowich
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Anonym: Stefano Zannowich, Kupferstich um 1780.
context_page_description: Stefano Zannowich, called Hanibal, was a Montenegrin Serb count, adventurer and writer of "Turkish Letters". He wrote in Italian, French, Latin, German, and Serbian. He was a pen pal of Gluck, Pietro Metastasio, Voltaire, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Catherine the Great, and Frederick William II of Prussia, to whom he dedicated a book of French verses translated from Italian, "L'Alcoran des Princes Destinés au Trone". Giacomo Casanova mentions Stefano Zannovich, who "paid a visit to Vienna under the alias of Prince Castriotto d'Albanie. Under pressure of the authorities, he left at the end of July 1784" for Poland and later for the Netherlands (United Provinces).
context_section_description: Stefano Zannowich (Serbian: Стефан Зановић/Stefan or Stjepan Zanović, (Budva, Venetian Albania, 18 February 1751–Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, 25 May 1786), called Hanibal,  was a Montenegrin Serb count, adventurer and writer of "Turkish Letters". He wrote in Italian, French, Latin, German, and Serbian. He was a pen pal of Gluck, Pietro Metastasio, Voltaire, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Catherine the Great, and Frederick William II of Prussia, to whom he dedicated a book of French verses translated from Italian, "L'Alcoran des Princes Destinés au Trone". Giacomo Casanova mentions Stefano Zannovich, who "paid a visit to Vienna under the alias of Prince Castriotto d'Albanie. Under pressure of the authorities, he left at the end of July 1784" for Poland and later for the Netherlands (United Provinces).
caption: Stefano Zannowich, etching around 1780
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