ABSTRACT
JUAN ANDRÉS was a Spanish Jesuit, littérateur and historian. When the Jesuits were expelled from Spain in 1767, Andrés moved to Corsica, where he spent a year, and then to Ferrara, where he lived until 1774 teaching philosophy at the Jesuit School. From 1774 to 1796 he stayed at Mantua working as private tutor of the marquis Bianchi’s children. It is during this period, after collecting many materials while traveling across Italy, that he started writing a seven-volume world history of literature titled Dell’origine, progressi e stato attuale d’ogni letteratura (On the Origin, Progress and Present State of All Literature), which was published between 1782 and 1799. His brother, Carlos, translated it into Spanish, in a ten-volume version published between 1784 and 1806.
