In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Floren...

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The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the four...

First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist,polymath - was...

Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks - local and l...

Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and...

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects - ordinary and extra...

In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enj...

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the f...

For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely d...

Erken modern dönemde farkli kitalarin, ülkelerin hatta sehirlerin sinirlari nasil asilip da insan...

Nel raccontare la sua circumnavigazione del mondo al volgere del XVII secolo, il fiorentino Franc...