La Renaixensa
(Updated 08/10/2024)
Editorial La Renaixensa, founded by Pere Aldavert, emerged from the initiative of a magazine created in 1871. It was headquartered at number 13 Carrer Xuclà in Barcelona. In 1873, Àngel Guimerà joined its management at a time when the company needed a printing press of its own in order to keep watch over its output. Thus, a private company was created with the partners Pere Aldavert, Àngel Guimerà, Iu Bosch and Tadeu Monge.
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The Biblioteca de Catalunya conserves the personal papers of Pere Aldavert and Àngel Guimerà, which include documents related to the publishing house.
Pere Aldavert collection in the Biblioteca de Catalunya
Àngel Guimerà collection in the Biblioteca de Catalunya
Duran i Tort, Carola. "La Renaixensa", primera empresa editorial catalana. Barcelona : Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2001
Llanas, Manuel. L'Edició a Catalunya.Segle XX (fins a 1939). Barcelona: Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya, 2005.
La Renaixensa
Description
Editorial La Renaixensa, founded by Pere Aldavert, emerged from the initiative of a magazine created in 1871. It was headquartered at number 13 Carrer Xuclà in Barcelona. In 1873, Àngel Guimerà joined its management at a time when the company needed a printing press of its own in order to keep watch over its output. Thus, a private company was created with the partners Pere Aldavert, Àngel Guimerà, Iu Bosch and Tadeu Monge.
During the 35 years it was in operation, La Renaixensa not only published newspapers but also issued publications for a variety of organisations, such as the Lliga de Catalunya and the Unió Catalanista, rooted in the Catalanist project of the Renaixença movement. Even though the newspaper La Renaixensa disappeared in 1905, the publishing house continued under the leadership of Aldavert, promoting the publication of new authors with the goal of fostering Catalan language and literature. It also published foreign authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in order to encourage reading habits in contemporary Catalan society.
La Renaixensa
Authors
The authors published include thinkers and politicians from both Catalonia and abroad, as well as the literati of the day.
Aldavert, Pere, 1850-1932
Almirall, Valentí, 1841-1904
Aulèstia y Pijoan, Antoni, 1849-1908
Balaguer, Víctor, 1824-1901
Bofarull, Antoni de, 1821-1892
Collell, Jaume, 1846-1932
Coroleu, José, 1839-1895
Genís i Aguilar, Martí, 1847-1932
Guimerà, Àngel, 1845-1924
Matheu, Francesc, 1851-1938
Milà i Fontanals, Manuel, 1818-1884
Oller, Narcís, 1846-1930
Pin i Soler, Josep, 1842-1927
Riera i Bertran, Joaquim, 1848-1924
Soler, Frederic, 1839-1895
Verdaguer, Jacint, 1845-1902
Vidal de Valenciano, Cayetano, 1834-1893
Vilanova, Emili, 1840-1905
La Renaixensa
Collections
La Renaixensa promoted the dissemination of literature, history and political works. One of the ways it reached people was through the serials that accompanied the newspaper La Renaixensa, such as the Novelas Catalanas y Extrangeres and Biblioteca Recreativa collections.
La Renaixensa
Magazines
La Renaixensa was founded as a literary and arts magazine which became a newspaper, although it retained the section on literature and the arts. The company behind this publication created Editorial La Renaixensa, whose most prominent publications were:
La Renaixensa
Outstanding works
- Almirall, Valentí. Lo Catalanisme. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1886.
- Coroleu, Josep. Claris y son temps: quadros de costums políticas del sicle XVII...[etc.]. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1880
- Desclot, Bernat. Crónica del Rey en Pere e dels seus antecessors passats. Amb un prefaci sobre 'ls cronistas catalans per Joseph Coroleu. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1885. Edition of the Chronicle written in 1288.
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Guimerà, Àngel. Gala Placídia. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1879.
The publishing house, in which the playwright Àngel Guimerà was a partner, published his entire oeuvre of plays after they had premiered.
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Oller, Narcís. La Papallona. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1882.
Publication of the first famous work by Narcís Oller. After this edition, a new version corrected by the author was issued with a prologue by Émile Zola.
