Andrés, Juan, 1740-1817

"Juan Andrés y Morell (Planes, Alicante, 15 de febrero de 1740 - Roma, 12 de enero de 1817), sacerdote jesuita español y escritor en lenguas española, italiana y latina, fue un humanista y crítico literario de la Ilustración, padre de la Literatura universal y comparada."

"Juan Andrés y Morell (15 February 1740 in Planes, Alicante - 12 January 1817 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Christian humanist and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment. He was the creator of world history and comparative literature (i.e. of Letters and Sciences of the eighteenth century) through the most important and extensive of his works: Dell'Origine, progressi e stato d'ogni attuale letteratura (1st ed. Italian, Parma, 1782-1799) - Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura (Madrid, 1784-1806, but was incomplete as it did not include the part devoted to the ecclesiastical sciences) only recently restored to a critical and complete edition."