Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… 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 Reipublicae’ in a letter describing the … pp. 333-374. 4 . Laurence Brockliss, Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 4. This increase in movement and communication can be discerned in … networks of scholars with some overlapping membership – uniting scholars in the provinces and in the capital (like in France) or uniting scholars across national borders. 10 As Melanie Conroy shows, the French academies for instance were …
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