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[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[Edited by Davide Limatola] 1654 in England represented a turning point in internal politics and, as a consequence, in diplomatic relationships with other continental European States. On the 16th December 1653, Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Republican Parliament and takes the title Lord Protector, a title…