Royal Academy of Italy

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The Royal Academy of Italy was a prestigious Italian learned society established under the Fascist regime to gather and honor leading figures in science, arts, and culture.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf learned society
national academy
alsoKnownAs Reale Accademia d’Italia
awards prizes for artistic achievement
prizes for literary achievement
prizes for scientific achievement
continent Europe
country Italy
dissolutionCause fall of Fascism in Italy
dissolved 1944
fieldOfWork arts
humanities
literature
science
social sciences
foundedBy Benito Mussolini
foundedUnderRegime Italian Fascist regime
hasCharacteristic elitist membership
instrument of cultural policy of Fascist regime
state-controlled
hasMemberType corresponding member
full member
hasPart artistic class
literary class
scientific class
headquartersLocation Rome
inception 1926
jurisdiction Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Lazio
Rome
memberOf Italian Fascist cultural institutions
namedAfter Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED
nativeLabel Reale Accademia d’Italia
politicalAlignment Fascism
purpose honoring leading Italian intellectuals
promotion of arts
promotion of culture
promotion of science
replacedBy Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
replaces Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
selectionCriteria co-option of eminent scholars and artists
significantBuilding Palazzo Corsini
significantEvent suppression of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
subordinateTo Fascist Party leadership
Italian government
timePeriod Second World War era
interwar period

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Royal Academy of Italy ("Reale Accademia d’Italia")
alsoKnownAs
Enrico Fermi
memberOf
Accademia dei Lincei ("Accademia d'Italia")
mergedWith
Royal Academy of Italy ("Reale Accademia d’Italia")
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