Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere di Mantova Royal Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Mantova

Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1768	According to its website (), website, it was founded in 1768 by Maria Teresa, Empress of Austria, as the Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere di Mantova. Maylender, v.5, pp.469-475 gives a brief history of the Academy. Maylender, v.5, pp.470-471, indicates that on 1767, July 20, Guiseppe II (acting as co-regent with Maria Teresa) set plans in motion to reform the Accademia dei Timidi (which had roots going back to the Accademia degli Invaghiti, founded in 1562); the plans included a change of its name to the Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. An edict from Maria Teresa on 1767, November 9 gave further specifications, including the indication that not only members from the Accademia dei Timidi, but also from the Colonia Arcadica Virgiliana (founded in 1752, but like the Timidi having roots going back to the Invaghiti of 1562), would be eligible for membership in the new Accademia (Maylender, v.5, pp.470-471). Since the website () gives 1768 as the founding date, one assumes that is the year that the planned founding took effect. According to Maylender, v.5, pp.473, in 1797, with the occupation of Mantova by the French Republican army, the Academy became dormant. But in an attempt to make themselves popular, the French in occupied Italy promoted the Academies, and, in Mantova, also the glory of Virgil, the most famous of its residents in the Ancient Roman Empire. Napoleon Bonaparte himself named the citizens of Mantova the Popolo Virgiliano; and General Miollis gave the Virgilian appellation to the Academy in an ordinance of 1797, October 14: Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Belle Lettere ed Arti. After this the Academy slowly began to function again (Maylender, v.5, pp.473). According to Maylender, v.5, pp.474, throughout the French occupation, and subsquent Austrian occupation, the Academy continued its meetings, but was plagued by hardship, and in about 1835 it became a private society, no longer enjoying the sponsorship of the Austrian government. Finally in 1861, they enjoyed once again sponsorship by the government, and took the name: Reale Accademia Virgiliana. Maylender, v.5, pp.475 indicates that 1868 saw the publication of the Atti e Memorie della Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Mantova Italy	This location is supported by its website ().
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1768 - ????	Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere di Mantova	Its website ().
1767 - 1797	Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti	Maylender, v.5, pp.470-471 gives a start date of 1767 for this name; v.5, p.473 gives 1797 as the end date.
1795?	Reale Accademia di Scienze, Belle-Lettere ed Arti	Its publications.
1797 - 1861	Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Belle Lettere ed Arti	Maylender, v.5, p.473 gives 1797 as the start date of this name; v.5, p.474 gives 1861 as the end date, i.e. the date when the Reale was once again used.
1861 - 1943?	Reale Accademia Virgiliana	Maylender, v.5, p.474 gives 1861 as the start date for this name. Its publications indicate that the Reale designation was used as late as 1943.
1863 - 1943?	Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti = Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova	Its publications suggest that these two names were used interchangeably during this period.
1949? - 1980	Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova	Its publications.
1981 -	Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti	Its publications.
Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti = National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1795 (Tomo 1)   A	Memorie della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Belle-Lettere ed Arti The record in the GBV German Union cat. indicates that this title was published in Mantova. Indexed Reuss [GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]	Memor. di Mantoua [Reuss, v.7, p.83 cites T.1; v.10, p.175 cites T.1.]
1827 - 1837[?] (1. - 3.)   B	Museo della Reale Accademia di Mantova [GBV German Union cat.]
1863, 1868   C	Atti e Memorie della Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Maylender, v.5, pp.476 gives this title for 1868, as does the record in Harvard Univ. cat.; neither mentions an 1863 volume. The GBV German Union cat. record mentions both an 1863 volume and an 1868 volume - as does its website () - but the GBV German Union cat. record gives these volumes the title Atti e memorie della Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova , i.e. the title of D. Continued by D. [GBV German Union cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]
1869/1870 - 1906/1907; 1908/1909 - 1918/1920 (n.s., v.1 - v.11/13   D	Atti e Memorie della R. Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova The volume and year numbering is that given in its website (). Continues C. Continued by E. [Harvard Univ. cat.; GBV German Union cat.]
1921/1923 - 1943 (n.s., v.14/16 - n.s., v.26   E	Atti e Memorie (Reale Accademia Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti) The volume and year numbering is that given in its website (). The GBV German Union cat. record indicates that the 1943 volume is the last with the Reale designation. Continues D. Continued by F. [Harvard Univ. cat.; GBV German Union cat.]
1949 - 1980 (n.s., v.27 - n.s., v.48   F	Atti e Memorie della Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova The volume and year numbering is that given in its website (). The GBV German Union cat. record indicates that the 1943 volume was the last with the Reale designation. Continues E. Continued by G. [GBV German Union cat.]
1981 - (n.s., v.49 - )   G	Atti e Memorie / Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Continues F. [GBV German Union cat.]