Out of all our worldly heritage, we love no other treasure more deeply than our language.Due to this avid interest in his native language, Rovira i Virgili was fascinated by the great Catalan linguist, Pompeu Fabra and published several articles about him and his work.

[3] Antoni Rovira i Virgili met Pompeu Fabra for the first time personally around the year 1911, when he was writing for a newspaper called El Poble Català.

[4] He was already then a great believer in the linguist's thesis, but Fabra had not yet become the unarguable referent of the codification of contemporary Catalan.

At that time there was the belief that the said formal codification of the language would be an easily fulfilled objective due to the recent creation in 1907 of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

In 2012, the editor "Publicacions URV" (University Rovira i Virgily from Tarragona), published the complete translation of his work "In Defense of Democracy".