The Renaissance of Letters : Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650 (Paperback)

Part 1: Republics of Merchants Chapter 1: One Network or Many? The World and Writing of Francesco di Marco Datini and his Correspondents Jeffrey Miner (Western Kentucky University) Chapter 2: A Florentine Humanist in India: Filippo Sassetti, Medici Agent by Annual Letter Brian Brege (Syracuse University) Part 2: What Do Letters Do? Chapter 3: Letters and the Problem of Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Renaissance Italy Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University) Chapter 4: Mind the Gap: Exploring Lacunae in the Correspondences of Erasmus and Machiavelli William J. Connell (Seton Hall University) Chapter 5: The Letter and Diplomacy, An Example: The Florentine Mission Entrusted to Francesco Vettori in 1507 Chris Bacich, (Stanford University) Chapter 6: Mapping Castiglione’s Letters: Diplomatic and Literary Networks in Renaissance Italy Roberto Vetrugno (Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toru?) Chapter 7: The Cardinal’s Dearest Son: Venetian Empire and the Career of Giovan Matteo Bembo Demetrius Loufas (Stanford University) Chapter 8: The Literary Lives of Health Workers in Late Renaissance Venice Sarah Gwyneth Ross (Boston College) Chapter 9: ‘La verita delle stelle’: Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo Meredith K. Ray (University of Delaware) Chapter 10: Something to Write Home About: Roman Military Careers at the Start of the Thirty Years War, 1618-23 Suzanne Sutherland (Middle Tennessee State University) Part 3: From the Mailbag to the Archive Chapter 11: Ottavio Codogno and the Ordinary Post Rachel Midura (Stanford University) Chapter 12: Archival Intelligence and the Afterlives of Letters, 1500-1650 Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck College, University of London)