Horace Walpole (24 September 1717 –1797) – English man of letters. He was the first to use the word “serendipity” in the English language in 1754 in a letter to a friend where he explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari. He coined it by… Read More Serendipity
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… Read More The Three Princes of Serendip
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… Read More Serendipity: a word coined in January 1754
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