Title The Renaissance of letters : knowledge and community in Italy, 1300-1650 / edited by Paula Findlen and Suzanne Sutherland

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: with a letter in hand-writing, communication, and representation in Renaissance Italy; Portrait of a Renaissance letter; Writing, reading, and friendship; An epistolary guide to the volume; Notes; PART I: Late medieval commerce and scholarship; 1. Letters, networks, and reputation among Francesco di Marco Datini and his correspondents; Doing business in Italy; Beyond the Datini enterprise: letters from North Africa Household and network between Prato and FlorenceCommercial letters, networks, and hierarchies; Notes; 2. Ciriaco d'Ancona and the limits of the network; Merchant by necessity, humanist by aspiration; An occasional diplomat and passionate antiquarian; The limits of correspondence networks; Notes; PART II: Rulers and subjects; 3. Saving Naples: the king's Malaria, the Barons' revolt, and the letters of Ippolita Maria Sforza; The crisis of 1475; Ippolita Maria Sforza: writer of letters; The malaria letters and the language of kinship; The periodicity of the king's illness: 18-25 November Intimations of a second Barons' revoltNotes; Epilogues; Appendix 1 A note on the history of malaria; Appendix 2 The malaria letters; 4. Isabella d'Este's Employee Relations; Notes; 5. Letters as sources for studying Jewish conversion: the case of Salomone da Sesso/Ercole de' Fedeli; Convert identity and self-fashioning in letters; Letters as amedium for debating conversionary policy; Letters on the spectacle of conversion; Abbreviations; Notes; PART III: Humanism, diplomacy, and empire 6. Writing a letter in 1507: the fortunes of Francesco Vettori's correspondence and the Florentine RepublicFortune smiles on Francesco: Vettori's mandato; Mission impossible: Francesco Vettori's fortunes in Germany; Confronting fortune: Vettori, Machiavelli and the Viaggio in Alemagna; Epilogue: the afterlife of arenaissance letter; Appendix; Notes; 7. Minding gaps: connecting the worlds of Erasmus and Machiavelli; Erasmus at San Marco; Machiavelli's "Erasmus"; Conclusion; Notes; 8. The Cardinal's Dearest Son and the pirate: Venetian empire and the letters of Giovan Matteo Bembo Bembus Pater and the Dearest SonThe converging paths of Giovan Matteo Bembo and the Redbeard; Girolamo Ruscelli's letters: printing Giovan Matteo Bembo and Barbarossa; Letters to a pirate; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV: Science and travel; 9. The literary lives of health workers in late Renaissance Venice; Nicolò Massa: a lesson in trying too hard; Venetian learning without letters; Conclusion; Notes; 10. A Florentine humanist in India: Filippo Sassetti, Medici agent by annual letter; Notes; 11. "La verità delle stelle": Margherita Sarrocchi's letters to Galileo; Notes Summary "The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century, that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters-literary, commercial, political, religious, cultural, social, and military-which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people, inspiring them to see reading, writing, receiving, and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance, including Machiavelli and Castiglione, and consider the use of letters for women such as the poet and natural philosopher, Margherita Sarrocchi. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book as an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Paula Findlenis Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University, USA. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994) and many other publications on Renaissance / early modern Italy and the history of science. Professor Findlen is the 2016 recipient of the Premio Galileo for her contributions to understanding Italian culture. Suzanne Sutherland is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. Sheis finishing a book onearly modern military entrepreneurs and has worked on Stanford's Mapping the Republic of Letters interdisciplinary digital humanities project since 2008 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2020) Subject Italian letters -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Letter writing, Italian -- History HISTORY -- General. Letter writing, Italian Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Findlen, Paula, editor Sutherland, Suzanne (Professor of history), editor. LC no. 2019029784 ISBN 9780429429774 0429429770 9780429770968 0429770960 9780429770951 0429770952 9780429770944 0429770944

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