Cultural exchange in early modern Europe, Volume III, Correspondence and cultural exchange in Europe, 1400-1700 / edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond

Bibliogr. p. 333-362. Notes bibliogr. Index

Introduction / Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond Part I. Networks and Markets of Information 1. From merchants' letters to handwritten avvisi. Notes on the origins of public information / Mario Infelise 2. Handwritten newsletters as means of communication in Europe / Renate Pieper and Zsuzsa Barbarics 3. Merchant letters across geographical and social boundaries / Francesca Trivellato 4. Correspondence and natural history in the sixteenth century: cultures of exchange in the circle of Carolus Clusius / Florike Egmond Part II. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Artists, Patrons, Collectors 5. Letters and portraits: economy of time and chivalrous service in courtly life / Fernando Bouza 6. The letter as deferred presence: Nicolas Poussin to Paul Fréart de Chantelou. 28 April 1639 / Peter Mason 7. The role of correspondence in the transmission of collecting patterns in seventeenth-century Europe: models, media and main characters / Irene Baldriga Part III. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Noblemen, Peasants, Spies 8. The political correspondence of Albuquerque and Cortés / Francisco Bethencourt 9. Spying in the Ottoman Empire: sixteenth-century encrypted correspondence / Dejanirah Couto 10. The correspondence of illiterate peasants in early modern Hungary / Istvan Grigor Toth Bibliography Index