Efforts to establish Slovak as the standard language emerged as early as in the 17th century. For example, in "The Czech Grammar" (1603), Vavrinec Benedikt of Nedožery incites the Slovaks to deepen their knowledge of their Slovak language. Matej Bel in the introduction to the "Gramatica Slavico-Bohemica" (1745) of Pavel Doležal compares the Slovak language with other recognized languages. Literary activity in the Slovak language flourished during the second half of the seventeenth century and continued into the next century. In the mid-18th century Camaldolese monks translated the Bible in a variant of language named after them, while Romuald Hadvabný of Červený Kláštor proposed a detailed (Western Slovak) language codification in his Latin-Slovak Dictionary (1763) with an outline of the Slovak grammar. The first adventure novel in Slovak, the "René mláďenca príhodi a skúsenosťi," was published in 1783 by Jozef Ignác Bajza in the Western Slovak language.