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Accademia degli Intronati

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Accademia degli Intronati =
Academy of the Dazed Ones
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1525
This date is supported by a brief history page on the Accademia, where we also read that it was considered a continuation of an academy in Siena in the previous century (the 15th century), which was called "la Grande".

According to this brief history page on the Accademia, it was a group of writers headed by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II. The reason for their name is that they wished to distance themselves from the noises of the world, by which they felt stunned, or dazed, in order that they might cultivate literature.

Its activity was interrupted during the last years of the republic of Siena. It opened up again in 1559, but was shut down again ten years later along with other societies in the city by Cosimo I de' Medici, the new governor of Siena. It once again resumed its activity in 1603. In 1654 it was merged with the Accademia dei Filomati.

In 1928, the Accademia degli Intronati was passed over to the Comune di Siena, which in 1935 transformed it to an Academy, and in 1941 gave it the official title Accademia Senese degli Intronati.

The Accademia seems never to have published a journal.

More information is found in L'Accademia degli intronati di Siena e una sua commedia by Lolita Petracchi Costantin (pub. 1928) ( Harvard Univ. cat.).

Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
Siena
Italy
This location is supported by a brief history page on the Accademia.
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1525 - 1941? Accademia degli Intronati Brief history page on the Accademia.
1655 Accademia intronata Title statement for L'Accademia intronata festante per l'esaltatione d'Alessandro VII al sommo pontificato (1655). (Harvard Univ. cat.).
1776, 1777 Accademia Intronata di Siena Title statement for La Frascatana. Dramma giocoso per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Grande della nobilissima Accademia Intronata di Siena (1776) (Harvard Univ. cat.). Title statement for La virtuosa alla moda. Dramma giocoso per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro della nobilissima Accademia Intronata di Siena (1777). (Harvard Univ. cat.).
1941 - Accademia Senese degli Intronati Brief history page on the Accademia.
1942 Reale Accademia Senese degli intronati Notes statement for Statuti volgari senesi (1942). (Harvard Univ. cat.).
1944 Reale Accademia degli Intronati Imprint statement for Raccolta di voci e modi di dire in uso nella citta di Siena (1944) Harvard Univ. cat.).
[No website found, as of 2003, July 30.]

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