The Almirall Project in Cercles

Abstract

The Almirall Project: a portal of 19th-century culture and thinking was created to explain the importance of the collection of the Barcelona Athenaeum Library as a tool to understand the reception of European currents of thought, humanities and science in Catalan and Spanish society in the late nineteenth century. This is possible because the Barcelona Athenaeum was the place where Catalan intellectuals and writers could read European magazines and books about the latest developments in the various fields of knowledge. In this way, they were able to summarize the arguments in the Catalan newspapers and press, thereby acting as true cultural intermediaries of these ideas. Today, thanks to the progressive digitization of the bibliographic collection, Project Almirall allows us to reconstruct the reception of these cultural currents in a nuanced way.