Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Smith, ‘Three Arcadians’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D11802, circa 1683-1729. Résumé Early modern literary academies were spaces of in-person and epistolary interaction and intellectual sociability. From the highly institutionalised royal academies to the academies salonnières of Italy, they incarnated the practices of the educated, intellectual classes in Europe. In Italy, …
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