Accademia degli Umoristi

The Accademia degli Umoristi (Academy of the Humorists) was a learned society of intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural life of 17th century Rome. The society was founded in 1603 by Paolo Mancini and Gaspare Salviani. It began as place for writers and intellectuals to celebrate burlesque and mock-heroic poetry, but soon attracted some of the most prominent literary figures and patrons of the arts in Rome. The academy became defunct around 1670.[1][2][3] The Academy was briefly revived in the first half of the eighteenth century by Pope Clement XI.[4]

Accademia degli Umoristi
Girolamo Aleandro, Sopra l'impresa de gli accademici humoristi
AbbreviationGli Umoristi
MottoRedit agmine dulci
Formation1603 (1603)
Dissolved1670
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Official language
Italian

Members

References
  1. Salvatore, Filippo (1987). Antichi e Moderni in Italia nel Seicento, p. ii. Guernica Editions. ISBN 0919349617 (in Italian)
  2. Moroni, Gaetano (1840), Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni, pp. 42–43. Tipografia Emiliana (in Italian)
  3. Haan, Estelle (1998). From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies, pp. 102–103. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0871698862
  4. Evelyn, John (1955). Diary: Now First Printed in Full from the Mss. Belonging to John Evelyn. Clarendon Press. p. 364.
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