Kelly, Jason M.2016-01-042016-01-042006“Society of Dilettanti (act. 1732–2003),” Jason M. Kelly in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, eee online ed., ed. Lawrence Goldman, Oxford: OUP, May 2006; online ed., ed. Lawrence Goldman, May 2015, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/92790https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7878The Society of Dilettanti was founded by a group of gentlemen who met each other in Italy while on the grand tour. Thus travel to Italy, and later Greece, became a requirement for membership. The word dilettante is of Italian origin and its adoption by the society to refer to a lover of fine arts is its first recorded use in English.enHistoryArt HistoryGrand TourEnlightenmentArchaeologyHistory of CollectingBritish HistoryResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::ArtEighteenth CenturyArticle