El 26 de maig de 1789 l’humanista P. Bartomeu Pou, desterrat a Itàlia, envià a Joan
Colom una carta llatina de felicitació pel seu nomenament com a canonge de la seu mallorquina.
El fet presenta un triple interès, no sols per la carta en si, també per la persona que l’envia i per la
persona que la rep. En aquest treball es fa l’edició crítica i la traducció d’aquesta carta i s’estudia
la figura de Joan Colom, humanista fins ara pràcticament desconegut.On the 26th May, 1789, the humanist P. Bartolomeu Pou, exiled in Italy, sent a Latin letter
of congratulations, accompanied by a poem in elegiac distichs, to Joan Colom for his appointment
as canon of the Majorcan cathedral. This fact rises a triple interest: in the person who is sending the
letter, in the person who receives it, and in the letter itself. In this work, the figure of Joan Colom is
studied, an unknown humanist up until now, as well as this letter, of which both the critical edition and
the translation are currently being composed