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‘They Hide from Me, Like the Devil from the Cross’: Transalpine Postal Routes as Intelligence Work, 1555–1645

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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Ecriture et identité féminines. Giustiniana Wynne Orsini v. Rosenberg: Economie relationnelle et formation d’identité de femme auteur dans ses correspondances

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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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini

Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James's in the First Half of the 18th Century

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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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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Una testimonianza suburbana: La folie Le Prêtre de Neubourg (1764-1766)

ArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro: Architecture History Restoration, 2016
Il mito è ben noto: il Settecento avrebbe visto nascere edifici destinati al piacere di una classe sociale fortunata e spesso oziosa, piccole case dall’aspetto dimesso adatte a discreti appuntamenti galanti, padiglioni isolati dotati di stanze lussuose ...
Claire Ollagnier
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Maurizio Fabbri, Vagabondi, visionari, eroi. Appunti su testi "in minore" del Settecento spagnolo, Piovan Editore, Abano Terme, 1984; 151 pp.

Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 1984
Se reseñó el libro: Vagabondi, visionari, eroi. Appunti su testi "in minore" del Settecento spagnolo.
Maria Grazia Profeti
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Riequilibrare il sistema: mutazioni e permanenze in Italia tra 1706 e 1720. Alcune considerazioni [PDF]

, 2014
The consequences of the Treaty of Utrecht in Italy were the definition of an ‘unstable’ equilibrium on the Peninsula, the results of the peace of 1713 until 1720, when, after a series of agreements, a treaty was signed in The Hague, and some territories ...
Cremonini, Cinzia
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Osiemnastowieczny melodramat o nawróceniu św. Augustyna

Vox Patrum, 1988
Sotto tale titolo, dopo una breve introduzione, vengono qui pubblicate due opere pcetiche polacche del settecento sulla conversione di Sant’Agostino.
Bazyli Degórski
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La tonadilla a la Barcelona del darrer terç del Set-cents més enllà de la Casa de Comèdies

Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2014
Encara que el monopoli oficial dels espectacles teatrals a la Barcelona del Set-cents era en mans de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu, és sabut que l’afició dels barcelonins pel teatre anava més enllà de la Casa de Comèdies gestionada per aquesta entitat.
Aurèlia Pessarrodona
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