Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were established by letters patent—conferred on them a highly institutionalised system of governance in a dedicated location. In Italy, … approach, through the lens of the men and women who populated the abstract, idealised entity that was the Republic of Letters, and through the study of their intellectual practices. 11 4 . Antoine Lilti, Le Monde des salons, sociabilité … and not before the eighteenth century: the Accademia Ercolanese (1755) and the Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere (1778). 12 Yet the celebrated Florentine Accademia della Crusca—the purpose of which was the study and …
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