Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720

by April G. Shelford

Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during the Renaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158046243X
• ISBN13: 9781580462433
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"