Editing Royal Spanish Academy (section)

==History==
In 1711, Spain, unlike France, Italy and Portugal, did not have a large dictionary with a comprehensive and collegially elaborated lexicographical repertoire. 
The initial nucleus of the future Academy was formed that same year by the eight novatores who met in the library of the palace of {{lang|es|italic=no|[[Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco]]}}, [[Duke of Escalona]] and [[Marquisate of Villena|Marquess of Villena]], located in the Plaza de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Concha |first1=Víctor García de la |title=La Real Academia Española. Vida e historia |date=10 June 2014 |publisher=Grupo Planeta Spain |isbn=978-84-670-4202-3 |language=es|page=19}}</ref>

The Spanish Academy was founded in 3 August 1713 on the initiative of Pacheco, with the purpose of "fixing the voices and words of the Castilian language in their greatest propriety, elegance and purity".<ref name="four">{{cite web |title=Ortografía de la lengua española |url=https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/origen-y-evoluci%C3%B3n-del-sistema-ortogr%C3%A1fico-del-espa%C3%B1ol |website=Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española |publisher=Real Academia Española |access-date=10 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240705124610/https://www.rae.es/ortograf%C3%ADa/origen-y-evoluci%C3%B3n-del-sistema-ortogr%C3%A1fico-del-espa%C3%B1ol |archive-date=5 July 2024 |location=Madrid |language=es}}</ref> The objective was to fix the language in the state of fullness that it had reached during the 16th century and that had been consolidated in the 17th century. 
The Italian [[Accademia della Crusca]] founded in 1582 and the [[Académie Française]] founded in 1635 were taken as models.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kukuk |first1=Nick |title=The Real Academia Española in the Age of Social Networks |journal=ILCEA |date=12 June 2023 |issue=51 |doi=10.4000/ilcea.17329}}</ref> 

The first official session of the new corporation was held at the residence of Pacheco on 6 July 1713, an event that is recorded in the book of minutes, begun on 3 August 1713.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Concha |first1=Víctor García de la |title=La Real Academia Española. Vida e historia |date=10 June 2014 |publisher=Grupo Planeta Spain |isbn=978-84-670-4202-3  |language=es|page=43|chapter=La Gesta Del Diccionario}}</ref> 

Its creation, with twenty-four elected members<ref>{{cite book |last1=Concha |first1=Víctor García de la |title=La Real Academia Española. Vida e historia |date=10 June 2014 |publisher=Grupo Planeta Spain |isbn=978-84-670-4202-3 |language=es|page=35|chapter=La Gesta Del Diccionario}}</ref> was approved on 3 October 1714 by Royal Decree of [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]], that gave the academy the right to be called the "Royal Spanish Academy".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Terry |first1=Edward Davis |title=The Founding Date of the Real Academia Española |journal=Romance Notes |date=1960 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=31–35 |issn=0035-7995|jstor=43800040}}</ref> This meant that the academicians enjoyed the preeminences and exemptions granted to the servants of the Royal Household.<ref name="four"/> It had its first seat at number 26 Valverde Street, from where it moved to Alarcón Street, corner of Felipe IV, its definitive seat.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Répide |first1=Pedro |title=Las calles de Madrid. |date=2011 |publisher=Ediciones La librería |location=Madrid |isbn=9788487290909 |page=751}}</ref>

The emblem chosen was a fiery crucible placed on the fire, with the legend {{lang|es|Limpia, fija y da esplendor}} ("cleans, fixes and gives splendor").<ref name="Medina2013">{{cite book |last1=Medina |first1=Alberto |editor1-last=Valle |editor1-first=José Del |title=A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-00573-0 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTooAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA88}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The feat of the Real Academia Española |url=https://languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2017/10/03/the-feat-of-the-real-academia-espanolas-first-dictionary-part-1/ |publisher=Cambridge University Libraries|website=Language Collections Blog |date=3 October 2017 |access-date=7 July 2024}}</ref>
Collective utility became the main hallmark of the Spanish Academy, differentiating itself from other academies that had proliferated in the golden centuries and that were conceived as mere occasional literary gatherings.

The RAE began establishing rules for the orthography of Spanish beginning in 1741 with the first edition of the {{lang|es|Ortographía}} (spelled {{lang|es|Ortografía}} from the second edition onwards). The proposals of the Academy became the official norm in Spain by royal decree in 1844, and they were also gradually adopted by the Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas.
Several reforms were introduced in the {{lang|es|Nuevas Normas de Prosodia y Ortografía}} (1959, New Norms of Prosody and Orthography). Since the establishment of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language in 1951, the Spanish academy works in close consultation with the other Spanish language academies in its various works and projects. The 1999 Orthography was the first to be edited by the twenty two academies together.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/ortografiadelale0000unse |title=Ortografía de la Lengua Española |access-date=2009-02-07 |author=Real Academia Española |year=1999 |format=PDF |language=es |isbn=84-239-9250-0 |pages=v–viii }}</ref> The current rules and practical recommendations on spelling are presented in the latest edition of the {{lang|es|Ortografía}} (2010).

The headquarters, opened in 1894, is located at Calle Felipe IV, 4, in the [[Districts of Madrid|ward of Jerónimos]], next to the {{lang|es|[[Museo del Prado]]}}. The Center for the Studies of the Royal Spanish Academy, opened in 2007, is located at Calle Serrano 187–189.
 
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