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

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.

Clément Godbarge
Clément Godbarge
Lecturer in Digital Humanities

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