Italian Academies and their Networks, 1525-1700: From Local to Global (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the République des letters. "One of the most important and influential social and intellectual phenomena of the early modern period, Italian academies have traditionally been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, and then mostly in the Italian language. While this approach has resulted in a wealth of information on single institutions and figures, the absence of a critical reading of the broader phenomenon remains an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and the early modern period in Europe. Cutting across various disciplines from history of the book to literary criticism to intellectual history, this far-reaching volume traces the network of early modern Italian Academies and explains how they served as the basis for later intellectual networks such as the European 'Republique des lettres'"-- Provided by publisher "Cover "--"Title Page "--"Copyright Page " -- "Table of Contents " -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Representing Italian Academies (1569â#x80;#x93; 2006)" -- "2 Politics, Geography, and Diplomacy in Venetian Academies" -- "3 Italian Academies and Their Facebooks" -- "4 The Italian Academic Movement and the Republic of Letters" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index of Academies." Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-15 Representing Italian Academies (1569–2006)....Pages 17-76 Politics, Geography, and Diplomacy in Venetian Academies....Pages 77-124 Italian Academies and Their Facebooks....Pages 125-154 The Italian Academic Movement and the Republic of Letters....Pages 155-177 Conclusion....Pages 179-182 Back Matter....Pages 183-286 Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the Republique des letters.