ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a figure that is virtually unknown on an international level. From a political point of view, the Alcover family were active Carlists, Carlism being a political movement originated in 1833 that wanted to reclaim the Spanish throne for a different branch of the Bourbon dynasty. Alcover showed an interest in writing from a very young age, using only Spanish at first and, after 1880, mainly in Catalan. The reference to Ramon Llull was not haphazard, since the resurgence of Thomism was accompanied in Mallorca by a Llullian movement in which Alcover played a crucial role as president of the Llullian Publishing Commission, devoted to printing the complete works of Ramon Llull. The collection of words was divided between written sources and oral sources, organized in 16 sections and 584 subsections. A key aspect in Alcover’s self-training was learning the languages that dominated science at the time: German, French, English, and also Italian.
