| 1700 | A founding
year of 1700 is supported by the following title in the Biblioteca Nacional de España cat.:
Comas, Antoni. L'Academia de Bones Lletres des de la seva
fundació l'any 1700 : inauguració conjunta de les
corporacions catalanes del curs acadèmic 2000-2001.
(Barcelona : Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, 2000 146 p.)
According to
La guerra de la ploma
[a book review by Joaquim Albareda of the book:
Alabrús, Rosa Maria. Felip V i l'opinió dels
catalans. Pagès Editors. Lleida, 2001.]
this Academy traces its origins to the
Acadèmia dels Desconfiats
(Academy of the Untrusting), founded in 1700.
According to
CONTEXTOS MARC LITERARI
(a page on Jacint Verdaguer)
the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona was
founded in 1729 as a continuation of the
Academia de los Desconfiados
(the Castilian name for Acadèmia dels Desconfiats), which
had by then disappeared;
in 1752 the new Academy received Royal approval, becoming the
Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, whose tasks, among others,
were the preparation of a dictionary of the Catalan language.
There is an entry for the 1752 Academy with its name in Castilian
(rather than Catalan):
Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona
at the Instituto de España website
( ).
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