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History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 365-387, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so‐called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an ...
PATRICIA CHIANTERA‐STUTTE
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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 184-201, February 2022., 2022 Abstract To the representatives of Italian states in London, early 18th‐century Britain often remained a puzzle. The Revolution Settlement presented them with the problem of identifying the real source of power, both in order to send home reliable information and to try to secure support for the interests of their princes, who were sometimes desperate ...
Ugo Bruschi
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 384-408, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article analyses Francesco Ottieri's historical work, his authority as historian, and his book's eighteenth‐century readers. During the seventeenth century, books concerning recent events and early newspapers informed an expanding European readership.
Guido G. Beduschi
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Zofia e Livio Odescalchi alla luce di due fonti epistolari
Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, 2020 The princely Odescalchi family was at the center of political and social events of 1847–1848 in Rome, in the midst of the revolutionary convulsions that shook the whole of Europe.
Iwona Dorota
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Da poeta a poeta, da traduttore a traduttore: il carteggio tra Umberto Saba e Tomàs Garcés [PDF]
, 2015 : The personal relationship between Umberto Saba and Tomàs Garcés began in the early thirties and stopped just before the Spanish Civil War. This article analyses and edits for the first time all the letters written by Saba to the Catalan poet that ...
Gavagnin, Gabriella
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Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2006 Recenzja: Alfonso Maria de Liguori, Carteggio. 1 :1724-1743, oprac. G. Orlandi, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2004, ss. 840.
Maciej Sadowski
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Italies, 2002 Reduce dalla spedizione dei Mille in Sicilia, G. V. Abba stringe amicizia a Pisa col narratore Mario Pratesi. Il carteggio li stringe attraverso le vicende del Risorgimento italiano e per tutta la vita, proponendo sodalizi numerosi fra i quali spicca ...
Luigi Cattanei
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