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 …
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