Italian Academies and their Networks, 1525-1700 [electronic resource] : From Local to Global /
Testa, Simone.author.
Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the République des letters.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Representing Italian Academies (1569–2006) -- 3. Politics, Geography, and Diplomacy in Venetian Academies -- 4. Italian Academies and Their Facebooks -- 5. The Italian Academic Movement and the Republic of Letters -- 6. Conclusion.
Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the République des letters.
Italy—History.
Education—History.
Social history.
Europe—History.
History of Italy.
History of Education.
Social History.
European History.