Italian academies and their networks, 1525-1700 : from local to global / Simone Testa.

Author
Testa, Simone [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description
xiii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    • Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) [More in this series]
    • Italian and Italian American studies
    Summary note
    "One of the most important and influential social and intellectual phenomena of the early modern period, Italian academies have traditionally been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, and then mostly in the Italian language. While this approach has resulted in a wealth of information on single institutions and figures, the absence of a critical reading of the broader phenomenon remains an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and the early modern period in Europe. Cutting across various disciplines from history of the book to literary criticism to intellectual history, this far-reaching volume traces the network of early modern Italian Academies and explains how they served as the basis for later intellectual networks such as the European 'Republique des lettres'"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-271) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Representing Italian Academies (1569-2006)
    • 2. Politics, Geography, and Diplomacy in Venetian Academies
    • 3. Italian Academies and their Facebooks
    • 4. The Italian Academic Movement and the Republic of Letters
    • Conclusion.
    ISBN
    • 9781137438409 ((hardback))
    • 1137438401 ((hardback))
    • 1137438428
    • 9781137438423
    LCCN
    2015014412
    OCLC
    920680084
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