Juan Andrés y Morell (15 February 1740 in
Planes, Alicante
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12 January 1817 in
Rome
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) was a Spanish Jesuit priest,
Christian humanist
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and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment. He was the creator of world history and
comparative literature
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(i.e. of Letters and Sciences of the eighteenth century) through the most important and extensive of his works: ''Dell'Origine, progressi e stato d'ogni attuale letteratura'' (1st ed. Italian, Parma, 1782–1799) – ''Origen, progresos y estado actual de toda la literatura'' (Madrid, 1784–1806, but was incomplete as it did not include the part devoted to the