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Italian Academies and their Networks, 1525-1700 : From Local to Global / by Simone Testa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Testa, Simone., Author.
- Series:
- Italian and Italian American Studies, 2635-294X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--History.
- Italy.
- Education--History.
- Education.
- Social history.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History of Italy.
- History of Education.
- Social History.
- European History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Italy.
- History of Education.
- Social History.
- European History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137438423
- 1137438428
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