On the third of July, nineteen thirty-six, two weeks before the Spanish civil war broke out, an article by Carles Cardó called Del plaer i del turment de traduir (On the pleasure and torment of translating) appeared in the newspaper La Veu de Catalunya. Among other things, it stressed the need to advance the translation of foreign books into Catalan, especially of those sciences which had a weak tradition in our own language. By that time, Cardó had already translated a large number of Seneca's philosophical works for the Fundació Bernat Metge and had actively collaborated on the version of the Bible fostered by the Fundació Bíblica Catalana.