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Italian Academies and their Networks, 1525-1700

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BookHardcover
Ranking406227inGeschichte
CHF120.00

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-43840-9
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date25/10/2015
SeriesItalian and Italian American Studies
Pages286 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 216 mm
Weight510 g
Article no.22370529
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.18185352
Product groupGeschichte
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Simone Testa holds an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a Phd in Italian Literature from Royal Holloway (University of London, England) on political discourse in sixteenth-century Italy. He has been working on the Italian Academies Database (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ItalianAcademies/About.aspx) for two consecutive phases, while teaching at various institutions in Britain. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester, UK; the Newberry Library in Chicago, USA; and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. This is his second book.

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