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

Dec 12, 2021 · 1 min read
Breaking the news of King Henri III’s death | BnF
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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.

Avviso Digital Humanities Archival Research Past Research
Clément Godbarge
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Clément Godbarge
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Clément Godbarge is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of St Andrews. His research revolves around science and statecraft in early modern Europe. In his forthcoming book, he examines how doctors embedded at the courts of sixteenth-century France and Italy promoted themselves as political experts of a new genre. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Renaissance Society of America, and Harvard University.