This date is supported by its
website
( ), where we also read that it was
considered a continuation of an academy in Siena in the previous century
(the 15th century), which was called "la Grande".
According to its
website
(),
it was a group of writers headed
by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II.
The reason for their name is that they wished to distance themselves from
the noises of the world, by which they felt stunned, or dazed, in order
that they might cultivate literature.
Its activity was interrupted during the last years of the republic of
Siena. It opened up again in 1559, but was shut down again ten years
later along with other societies in the city by Cosimo I de' Medici,
the
new governor of Siena. It once again resumed its activity in 1603.
In 1654 it was merged with the Accademia dei Filomati.
In 1928, the Accademia degli Intronati was passed over to
the
Comune di Siena, which in 1935 transformed it to an Academy, and in 1941
gave it the official title
Accademia Senese degli Intronati.
The Accademia seems never to have published a journal.
More information is found in L'Accademia degli intronati di Siena e una
sua commedia by Lolita Petracchi Costantin (pub. 1928)
(
Harvard Univ. cat.).
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