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Author:   Paula Findlen (Stanford University, USA) ,  Suzanne Sutherland
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781138367500

ISBN 10:   1138367508
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   06 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part One: Late Medieval Commerce and Scholarship Chapter One: Letters, Networks and Reputation among Francesco di Marco Datini and his Correspondents Jeffrey Miner Chapter Two: Ciriaco of Ancona and the Limits of the Mediterranean Network Monique O’Connell Part Two: Rulers and Subjects Chapter Three :Saving Naples: The King’s Malaria, the Barons’ Threat, and Ippolita Maria Sforza’s Letters Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater Chapter Four: Isabella d'Este's Employee Relations Deanna Shemek Chapter Five: Letters as Sources for Studying Jewish Conversion: The Case of Salomone da Sesso/Ercole de' Fedeli Tamar Herzig Part Three: Humanism, Diplomacy, and Empire Chapter Six: Writing a Letter in 1507: The Fortunes of Francesco Vettori’s Correspondence and the Florentine Republic Christopher Bacich Chapter Seven: Minding Gaps: Connecting the Worlds of Erasmus and Machiavelli William J. Connell Chapter Eight: The Cardinal’s Dearest Son and the Pirate: Venetian Empire and the Letters of Giovan Matteo Bembo Demetrius Loufas Part Four: Science and Travel Chapter Nine: The Literary Lives of Health Workers in Late Renaissance Venice Sarah Gwyneth Ross Chapter Ten: A Florentine Humanist in India: Filippo Sassetti, Medici Agent by Annual Letter Brian Brege Chapter Eleven: ‘La verità delle stelle’: Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo Meredith K. Ray Part Five: Information, Politics, and War Chapter Twelve: Publishing the Baroque Post: The Postal Itinerary and the Mailbag Novel Rachel Midura Chapter Thirteen: War, Mobility, and Letters at the Start of the Thirty Years War, 1621-23 Suzanne Sutherland Chapter Fourteen: Making sense of the news: Micanzio’s letters, Cavendish, Bacon, and the Thirty Years War Filippo De Vivo Epilogue: Lives Full of Letters: From Renaissance to Republic of Letters Suzanne Sutherland

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Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University, USA. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994) and many other publications on Renaissance / early modern Italy and the history of science. Professor Findlen is the 2016 recipient of the Premio Galileo for her contributions to understanding Italian culture. Suzanne Sutherland is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. She is finishing a book on early modern military entrepreneurs and has worked on Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters interdisciplinary digital humanities project since 2008.

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