Anthony or Antoni Bonner, who described himself as "a Mallorcan in New York," has died at the age of ninety-seven. He leaves behind an important legacy: intellectual, as a scholar of Ramon Llull, and civic, as an environmental activist. His work on Llull's thought and writings is internationally renowned and earned him several doctorates. honorary cause (by the University of the Balearic Islands, the University of Barcelona, and the University of Freiburg). His tireless interest in nature and the environment led him to become a founding member, in 1973, of the Balearic Islands' most prominent and longest-running environmental organization: the Balearic Group for Ornithology and Nature Defense, better known as the GOB. In a short time, incidentally, the publisher Francesc Moll, who was also a founder of the GOB, and just a few days ago, Professor Xisco Avellà, younger than Bonner and Moll but a long-serving president of the organization, also passed away. It is worth noting that within the magnificent catalog of the Moll publishing house (now managed and expanded with new additions by Nueva Editorial Moll) are two seminal works by Anthony Bonner, one in the field of naturalism and the other in Lullism: these are Plants of the Balearic Islands, a contribution that remains crucial today to the understanding of the country's natural environment, and of the Selected Works of Ramon LlullA two-volume anthology of the most important texts by the founder of Catalan literature, with all due respect to the ancient troubadours. This selected work by Llull is the Catalan version of the same anthology that Bonner had published in English four years earlier in the USA, thanks to a research grant from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Francesc Moll Marquès has died. He was the head of the Moll publishing house from 1967 to 2014. The publishing house was founded in 1934 by his father, the linguist Francisco de Borja Moll Casasnovas, and is currently operating under the name Nueva Editorial Moll, promoted by Antoni Mir. He was the brother of Aina Moll (linguist and first Director General of Linguistic Policy for the Generalitat of Catalonia), Josep Moll (a long-standing leader of Catalan socialism in the Balearic Islands), and Joan Moll Marquès, who, as a pianist, excelled in recording and promoting the work of Antoni Torrandell.