Juan Meléndez Valdés
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Juan Meléndez Valdés was a Spanish neoclassical poet.
Portrait by Francisco de Goya. circa 1797
Royal Spanish Academy
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The Royal Spanish Academy is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. This is the official language regulating organ of Spain. It is based in
Juan Meléndez Valdés
…his countrymen by the grossest flattery of his foreign master, and in 1813 he fled to Alais. It was around 1812 that he was promoted to a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, too. Four years later he died in poverty at Montpellier. His remains were removed to Spain in 1866 and finally to Madrid, "Panteón de Hombres Ilustres…
Headquarters of the Royal Spanish Academy on Felipe IV Street, 4, in the Jerónimos neighborhood of Madrid.
Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, Marquis of Villena c. 1700.
Title page of Fundación y estatútos de la Real Académia Españóla (Foundation and statutes of the Royal Spanish Academy) (1715).
Inauguration of the RAE building in Madrid by Alfonso XIII, 1894.