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Juan Andrés Morell. Bolonia, Florencia, Roma: Cartas familiares I. Introduction and notes by Enrique Giménez López. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 2004, 559 pages.
The scientific and humanistic writings of the Jesuit Juan Andrés Morell (1740-1817) are well-known to historians of eighteenth-century Spain. Just twenty-seven years old when exiled to Italy alongside several key physicists and mathematicians from the Company of Jesus (harbingers of the "new sciences" in Spain) from his birthplace in Valencia, a site arguably also the birthplace of the Spanish Enlightenment, Juan Andrés' life and works provide a perfect example of the post-expulsion Jesuit impact on Hispanic science, art and culture that continued uninterrupted until the Company's 1815 reinstatement. With the publication of Bolonia, Florencia, Roma: Cartas famliares I, editor Enrique Giménez López brings to light an exciting first...
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