All Posts – Salvetti

[Brendan Dooley] One year later the First Civil War would begin in England. But already in 1641 simmering tension led to violent conflict between the Irish subjects of the Three Kingdoms, and their authorities, whoever these were conceived to be. Leaders of the 1641 rebellion…

The First English Civil War: New Perspectives on Digital Narrative.

Topics

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[Edited by Antonello Mori] The possibilities offered by new digital technologies allow exploring new ways to enhance archival documentation, making them not only more accessible to a user base consisting only of academical but also enabling the general public to approach them. Among the many…

Do you copy that

Topics

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[Edited by Wouter Kreuze] Salvetti dispatched the newsletters together with his own letters. For every week, we find one newsletter accompanied by one letter, always dated on the same weekday. But how did Salvetti actually compose the news? The text of all letters and newsletters…

All That’s Fit to Print…. And Then some! (1646)

Stories

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[By Brendan Dooley] Writings under attack! The Scots claim that the English are not living up to their obligations under the Solemn League and Covenant. The Parliamentarians object, switching the debate to one about the future of the monarchy, which they seem to endorse, subject…

A City’s Complaints

Topics

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[by Brendan Dooley] London, 16 June 1645. Salvetti writes (our emphasis): "This city of London today is in a great uproar about the loss of the city of Leicester and the the King's forward movement without any obstacle, blaming those who advise to engage…

“The Army Rules”! (Taking of the king, and Pride’s Purge, 1647-48)

Stories

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[by Brendan Dooley] Events after the recapture of the king at the end of 1647 precipitated rapidly. Amerigo Salvetti summed up the state of play since then in a long newsletter (we are now in December the following year). He starts with the results…

Execution of Charles I, 1649

Stories

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[By Brendan Dooley] In the words of the Florentine resident, Amerigo Salvetti: “It is confirmed that on the 6th of this month this new tribunal of Westminster pronounced the death sentence against their king, and on the 9th had this carried out by the ordinary…

Anatomy of a Newsletter: The Battle of Rowton Heath, 1645

Topics

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[By Brendan Dooley] The handwritten newsletter dated from London on 13 October 1645 and read shortly thereafter at the Grand Ducal court in Florence, began thus: “In this city there have been great demonstrations of rejoicing, and today this is taking place in all the…

Cromwell and the hot summer of 1654: conspiracies and plots against the new lord protector

Stories

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[Edited by Davide Limatola] «Here this week, some gentlemen have been imprisoned in the Tower of London, without the real cause being known, despite it usually being public, to be found that they had conspired against the person of the Lord Protector» …

King Charles I

Characters

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[by Brendan Dooley] Charles I, son of James I (VI of Scotland) and Anne of Denmark was born in Scotland on November 19, 1600. Crowned King of England and Ireland on 2 February 1626, and of Scotland on 18 June 1633, he was executed…

The Waldensians’ massacre, 1655

Stories

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[Edited by Enrico De Prisco] In mid-April of 1655, the Savoyard militias, backed by a regiment of Irish Catholic soldiers serving in the French army, started the military operation against the Waldenses community of Val Pellice, in the mountains surrounding Turin in Piedmont. This tragic…

From the analysis of social networks in the 1641 manuscript documents to the prediction of the factions and protagonists of the English Civil War.

Topics

ShareTwitter TumblrFacebook

[Edited by Antonello Mori] The ontologically schematic nature of the avvisi produced by Amerigo Salvetti lends itself well to the numerous opportunities offered by digital humanities tools. In this case, the documentary corpus of 1641 was examined in order to carry out a social network…