Republic of Letters
[ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… alive and well during the Renaissance. 1 In an early explicit reference to this community in the emerging scholarly communities of Renaissance Italy, Francesco Barbaro uses the phrase ‘this Republic of Letters’ or ‘huic litteraria … transition from a ‘ humanist model of Latin men of letters to a more socially diffuse model of learned and vernacular communities of men and women writing, traveling, reading, and publishing’ ( Edelstein et al. 413) . Increased travel …
Academies | Censorship | Community | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Networks | Republic of Letters
… Letters, they must ultimately concede that network analysis tools cannot uncover them and that digital studies of these communities will only become possible once their contours are understood in analog archives ( Hotson and Wallnig 31) . … or exchanges that we did not previously know about. What network analysis can do is provide new insight into known communities. By taking the step into abstract representation, we can sometimes see the network and its most important …