Simone Testa Knihy

Focusing on the interconnectedness of Italian Academies, this volume explores their collective influence on Italian culture and early modernity. By examining their relationships across various disciplines, it highlights how these institutions anticipated networks such as the République des lettres, filling a significant gap in existing scholarship. The work emphasizes the collaborative nature of these Academies and their role in shaping intellectual discourse during the period.

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.