Gelehrsamkeit in Deutschland und Italien im 18. Jahrhundert : Letterati, erudizione e società scientifiche negli spazi italiani e tedeschi del '1700

The volume contains the proceedings of a conference of the German and Italian Societies for Research into the 18th Century. They range from the Latin-based scholarship of the early 18th century to late-Enlightenment engagement with issues posed by the natural sciences and the theory of culture. The first section "Contacts" is comparative in its approach, dealing with such things as correspondence, change of location, change of context, national standpoints in the evaluation of literature, contrastive scholarly ideals, translations. The second section "Institutions" assembles studies on academicism in opera and drama, the institutionalization of scholarship in academies, and the dissemination of scholarly work by the agency of printers and publishers.

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe. Research foci of the Centre are at the moment aesthetics, discourses of history, cultures of learning and erudition, university history and not least the wide field of early Enlightenment as a field of experimentation and the foundation of cultural models for the Modern Age.

The results of this research have been published since Autumn 1995 in the Centres’ research publications series entitled University of Halle Series on the European Enlightenment. In addition, there have been relevant works produced outside the Centre. Two to four volumes are published annually (monographs, collected volumes, commentaries on sources).

Herausgegeben Von Giorgio Cusatelli ... [et Al.] = Letterati, Erudizione E Società Scientifiche Negli Spazi Italiani E Tedeschi Del '700 / A Cura Di Giorgio Cusatelli ... [et Al.]. Papers Presented At The Third German-italian Colloquium Of The Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Die Erforschung Des 18. Jahrhunderts And The Società Italiana Di Studi Sul Secolo Xviii, Held June 9-11, 1996, At Martin-luther-universität Halle-wittenberg. Includes Bibliographical References. German And Italian.