Avviso | Publishing the News that Made us Modern (1537—1743)

Dec 12, 2021
Breaking the news of King Henri III’s death | BnF

The main objective of the Avviso Project is to digitize, preserve, catalog, edit, contextualize and disseminate the 35,000 early modern manuscript newsletters, known as avvisi, which were part of the Medici collection and are now housed at the State Archive in Florence. The cataloging, digitization, and dissemination of approximately 35,000 avvisi, which were early modern manuscript newsletters, via the Medici Archive Project’s Medici Interactive Archive platform.

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Clément Godbarge
Clément Godbarge
NEH Senior Fellow

My research interests include early modern history, Italian literature and the digital humanities.

Posts

A Perceptual Geography of the Levante
The Levante is an elusive toponym, as it is usually defined in relation with–or in opposition to–another territory. What was then Tuscany’s Levante in the 16th century? The data that I gathered from the MIA database gives an unexpected answer.
Clément Godbarge
Oct 29, 2022 5 min read Notes
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A Perceptual Geography of the Levante