The English Della Cruscan School, although its nucleus was formed in 1785 by the publication of The Florence Miscellany, existed neither in the consciousness of the group which formed it nor in that of the pu blic until it was so dubbed as a term of reproach by William Gifford in his bitter satire The Baviad (1791). As has already been mentioned Merry, the leader of the group, claimed to be a member of the Real Accademia Fiorentina which had swallowed up the Crusca and the two other Floren tine Academies in 1783; but it was not until the summer of 1787, when during his lingering voyage of return to England he began to send his contributions signed Della Crusca to the World, that the name became publicly known or even employed by his friends. Merry uses it of himself in a letter to Mrs. Piozzi after his arrival in England, on 27th February, 1788. 1 His public avowal of his romantic yearning after the suppressed Accademia della Crusca appears on the title-page of his Paulina (1787); for whereas on the title-page of Robert Manners (1785) he for the first time calls himself A Member of the Royal Academy of Florence, the author of Paulina, Robert Merry, Esq.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9789024701988
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107416101
Product Key Features
Book Title
The English Della Cruscans and Their Time, 1783-1828
Author
w.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy, History
Publication Year
1967
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
322 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
297mm
Item Width
210mm
Volume
22
Item Weight
1430g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
w.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley
Series Title
International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees