Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… royal academies to the academies salonnières of Italy, they incarnated the practices of the educated, intellectual classes in Europe. In Italy, Arcadia was a prime example of how academies came to be defined as spaces of sociability. … 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 association with the crown—academies were … complémentaires Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves, Häseler, Jens et McKenna, Antony (dirs.), Réseaux de correspondance à l’âge classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Saint-Etienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006) Betri, Maria Luisa et …
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