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ROMAGUERA, Joseph:
The printing firm Jolis was set up by Joan Jolis (1650-1705), brother-in-law of Rafael Figueró, who had apparently bought the equipment from Antoni Lacavalleria and from the Cormelles. It is one of the Barcelona printing firms which lasted longest. Apart from books, they also produced interesting pamphlets-normally romantic stories or short collections of poetry with small popular engravings at the top of the first page or couplets dedicated to the Virgin or to special saints. One of their best-known books is Aesop's Fables, known as I Isopet. Romaguera, inquisitor and canon of the Barcelona See, defended the use of Catalan as a form of expression in the most important literary works, at a time when the language was undergoing a period of decadence.
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