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 R?publique des letters.1. Introduction.- 2. Representing Italian Academies (15692006).- 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.
Testas book is not only a stimulating read but also a vast source of information, confronting readers with different fields that they may not have considered before. The notes to the main text fill almost one-quarter of the entire book, which, combined with the rich bibliography and index, make it a database on paperthough this database is wisely restricted to some aspects of the Italian academies project. (Bernd Kulawik, Accademia de lo Studio de LArchitetture, accademia-vitruviana.net, July 22, 2018)
The work is easy to navigate, thanks to the useful index of all academies discussed. & Testas book, itself the product of a collaborative network of scholars, offers a wealth of information on early modern intellectual networks in Italy. Together with the Italian Academies Database, it will be a valuable tool for any scholar interested in this phenomenon, as it makes visible the complex academic network across the Italian peninsula, connecting books, people, and cities. (Anna-Luise Wagner, Modern Language Review, Vol. 113, April, 2018)
The book itself aims to explore, in greater depth, particular individuals and their networks in the circulation of knowledge. & This book contains much useful information. Anyone studying one or more Italian academlC'
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