1723 in literature

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According to the decision of the jury of the English county of Middlesex, “ The Fable of the Bees ” by the English writer Bernard de Mandeville ^[1] was declared harmful.
In the USA, the newspaper " Pennsylvania Gazette " began to print.
Following the accusation of atheism , the encyclopedic scientist Christian von Wolf was forced to leave Prussia.

In two volumes in London , the complete works of John Sheffield were published.
The play "Double inconstancy" by Pierre de Marivo .
“The Constitution of Freemasons ” by Freemason James Anderson .
"Dell'Istoria Civile del Regno di Napoli libri" Pietro Giannone .
An improved edition of the work of Thomas Dempster, “Seven Books of Royal Etruria,” in Latin, the first detailed study of Etruscan civilization, was released.

January 12 - Antoine Maren Lemierre , French poet and playwright, author of tragedies on ancient subjects (died in 1793).
January 27 - Johann Andreas Kramer , German poet (died in 1788).
January 31 - Petronella Johanna de Timmermann , Dutch poet and writer (died 1786).
February 8 - Johann Arnold Ebert , German poet and author of literary translations (died in 1795).
February 23 - Richard Price , Welsh philosopher, publicist (died in 1791).
June 10 - Franciszek Paprotsky , Polish Jesuit, historian, translator, publisher of newspapers and calendars (died in 1805).
July 11 - Jean-Francois Marmontel , French writer, philosopher and playwright (died 1799).
August 1 - Ivan Velikanovich , Croatian spiritual writer, playwright (died 1803).
December 18 - Friedrich Karl von Moser , German writer, publicist (died in 1798).
December 19 - Susanna Catherine von Klettenberg , German nun and poetess (died in 1774).
December 25 - Friedrich Melchior Grimm , German publicist (died in 1807).
exact date unknown
- Lachlan MacPherson , Scottish Gaelic poet.
- Boris Mikhailovich Saltykov , Russian writer (died in 1808).

January 1 - Louis de Courcillon , French church leader and grammar player, the first to describe the nasal vowels of the French language (born 1643).
March 15 - Johann Christian Gunther , German poet (born 1695).
May 11 - Jean-Halber Campistron , French poet and playwright (b. 1656).
June 3 - Filippo Maria Casoni , Italian historian of the XVII-XVIII centuries. Author of the Annals of the Genoese Republic (1692–1708, 1721) and The Stories of Louis the Great (1701–1721) (b. 1662).
July 14 - Claude Fleury , French church historian, author of historical works (b. 1640).
July 28 - Mariana Alcoforado , Portuguese nun and spiritual writer (born 1640)
August 21 - Dmitry Kanteminovich Kantemir , Moldavian and Russian writer, first Russian satirist (b. 1676)
August 25 - Nicola Delamar , French writer (b. 1639)
November 25 - David-Augustine de Bruyes , French playwright (born 1640)
December 1 - Suzanne Centerivre , English dramatic writer, poet, playwright (born 1667).
exact date unknown
- Afanasy Alekseevich Zarutsky , Russian panegyrist writer.
- Alexey Ilyich Mankiev , Russian historian, author of The Core of Russian History.
- Jacques Moreau de Brazé , French cavalry captain, author of Notes by the Brigadier Moreau de Brazé about the Russo-Turkish War (1713; Russian translation by A. S. Pushkin, 1835) and memoirs in 3 volumes (1716).

↑ Bernard Mandeville and “The Fable of the Bees, or the Vices of Individuals - Good for the Society” // D. Antiseri , Real J. Western Philosophy from the Origins to the Present / Per. with it. S. A. Maltseva; Scientific ed. E. Sokolov. - St. Petersburg: Petropolis, 1997 .-- 336 p. - ISBN 88-350-7271-9 , 5-86708-103-6.