page_title: Bologna (newspaper)
section_title: The news
hierarchical_section_title: Bologna (newspaper) / The news
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Gazzetta "Bologna" numero del 7 Agosto 1759
context_page_description: Bologna was a newspaper published in Bologna from 1642 to 1787. It is considered one of the oldest newspapers in Italy.
context_section_description: In the seventeenth century Europe the postal network touched all the main countries. The correspondence to Bologna therefore came via the postal service. Probably, most of the news was provided by publishers of foreign capital newspapers. There was also a second network that included all the major newspapers: each of them provided the news they had on their own to the gazettes of the other countries. In this way you could make newspapers of good quality and with news already verified. In addition to these privileged sources, Bologna had its own network of local correspondents, who contributed to the newspaper on a voluntary basis. Like the other newspapers, it maintained an exclusive relationship with its correspondents.
  The news was grouped by places of origin. The first information was local, followed by news from Rome. Then came news from other Italian states: Kingdom of Naples, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Savoy (always in the same order). The news from abroad came from: Madrid, Lisbon, Paris (occasionally from other French cities), Lucerne (and other Swiss cities, such as Bern and Geneva), Cologne (also Frankfurt, Argentorati and Hamburg), The Hague, Brussels, London, Vienna and Poland. Finally, news was published from Venice or from Mantua.
  For each news, two information were given in a row: city of origin and date. The date was important because the news was published on different dates. The reader was used to reading news about events that happened at different times: one day before for Bologna, three days before for Venice, five or seven days before for Milan, up to ten days before for Rome. The news coming from abroad brought a date that was from a minimum of ten days (France and Switzerland) to a maximum of fifty days (Lisbon) before the day the newspaper came out.
caption: A number of 1759
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