Juan Andrés y Morell (15 February 1740 in
Planes, Alicante12 January 1817 in
Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit priest,
Christian humanist and literary critic of the Age of Enlightenment. He was the creator of world history and
comparative literature (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