Villani Appointed Fellow at EURONEWS Digital Project

Salvetti Project Added to EURONEWS

Stefano Villani has joined the EURONEWS digital project on the birth of news in early modern Europe as Senior Research Fellow. This project, funded by the Irish Research Council, is led by Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. 
As an appendix to Villani's 1999 Ph.D. thesis on the seventeenth-century Italian perception of the English civil wars and the Interregnum, hr transcribed all the newsletters and other correspondence sent to the Grand Duke of Tuscany and his secretary’s office by the Tuscan residents in London, Amerigo Salvetti and Giovanni Salvetti Antelminelli, between 1649 and 1660. The overall number of letters and avisi totals 1773 documents (and the transcript amounts to more than 777,000 words). EURONEWS has now aunched the Salvetti Project that will publish Villani's transcriptions of the handwritten newsletters along with digital images on the digital platform of the Medici Archive Project. A team of several junior fellows, coordinated by Dooley and Dr. Davide Boerio, has already begun this massive work by taking the pictures of the manuscript letters, uploading the images to the platform, and proofreading the transcriptions. All the texts will be encoded in XML, allowing not only their better presentation but also their more in-depth  analysis and interpretation