Archive for August 9th, 2008
Scribal Culture and Political Information in Italy, 1450-1650
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Birkbeck College, Malet Street, University of London, Friday, 12 September 2008 Many of Italy’s most famous authors combined literary production with work that is now less known as professionals of political information, whether as secretaries, counsellors, authors of reports, newswriters, or scribes. Other writers who specialised in information have been almost universally ignored, but were [...]