Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… one of the central attractions of intellectual sociability. Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel (1690) defined the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their … societies. In the first years of the eighteenth century, however, the term reappeared, morphing to include the arts (the Academy of Painting, founded in 1711, is one example) 1 : British literary and artistic associations, though labelled … of the Italian language—had been founded in 1582 by a group of friends who were all members of the Fiorentina academy (1540). 13 The Roman academy of Arcadia was established in October 1690, by a circle of friends from the …
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