Academy of the Distrustful

The Academy of the Distrustful, or Distrustful Academy, is an academy of letters founded on 3 June 1700 in Barcelona as a Baroque literary and musical academy with the aim of promoting the study of classical and Catalan history and poetry, mostly in Spanish, by fourteen scholars headed by the noble Pau Ignasi de Dalmases i Ros. It published the work Nenias reales on the death of Charles II of Spain, and two of its members made the first edition of the works of Francesc Vicent Garcia, which contains a prologue praising the role of the academy. The poet, soldier and statesman Joan Bonaventura de Gualbes i Copons, although he was not a member, was the author of the same.