Self-administration turned the Academy of the Arts into a strange place. The court sycophants were quickly ous

Self-administration turned the Academy of the Arts into a strange place. The court sycophants were quickly ousted — it turned out they weren't welcome when there wasn't someone like Irovetti constantly ordering odes to themselves. In their place came a motley, unpredictable crowd: eccentrics, fashionable authors of popular prints and cheap novels, charlatans, scribblers with delusions of grandeur, as many as three feuding "experimental" theaters... and even a few truly unappreciated geniuses! The academy is not only highly esteemed — there's no place like it, even in Absalom!