The Renaissance of Letters

Part One: Late Medieval Commerce and Scholarship

Chapter One: Letters, Networks and Reputation among Francesco di Marco Datini and his Correspondents

Jeffrey Miner

Chapter Two: Ciriaco of Ancona and the Limits of the Mediterranean Network

Monique O'Connell

Part Two: Rulers and Subjects

Chapter Three :Saving Naples: The King's Malaria, the Barons' Threat, and Ippolita Maria Sforza's Letters

Diana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater

Chapter Four: Isabella d'Este's Employee Relations

Deanna Shemek

Chapter Five: Letters as Sources for Studying Jewish Conversion: The Case of Salomone da Sesso/Ercole de' Fedeli

Tamar Herzig

Part Three: Humanism, Diplomacy, and Empire

Chapter Six: Writing a Letter in 1507: The Fortunes of Francesco Vettori's Correspondence and the Florentine Republic

Christopher Bacich

Chapter Seven: Minding Gaps: Connecting the Worlds of Erasmus and Machiavelli

William J. Connell

Chapter Eight: The Cardinal's Dearest Son and the Pirate: Venetian Empire and the Letters of Giovan Matteo Bembo

Demetrius Loufas

Part Four: Science and Travel

Chapter Nine: The Literary Lives of Health Workers in Late Renaissance Venice

Sarah Gwyneth Ross

Chapter Ten: A Florentine Humanist in India: Filippo Sassetti, Medici Agent by Annual Letter

Brian Brege

Chapter Eleven: 'La verita delle stelle': Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Meredith K. Ray

Part Five: Information, Politics, and War

Chapter Twelve: Publishing the Baroque Post: The Postal Itinerary and the Mailbag Novel

Rachel Midura

Chapter Thirteen: War, Mobility, and Letters at the Start of the Thirty Years War, 1621-23

Suzanne Sutherland

Chapter Fourteen: Making sense of the news: Micanzio's letters, Cavendish, Bacon, and the Thirty Years War

Filippo De Vivo

Epilogue: Lives Full of Letters: From Renaissance to Republic of Letters

Suzanne Sutherland