Contents 

Editorial 9 
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti and Donatella Pallotti 

Part One 
general overview

Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern Culture: An Introduction 17
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

 
 

Part Two 
Case Studies

 
Textual and Paratextual Issues 

Editing Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters 41
Carlo M. Bajetta

To and From the Queen: Modalities of Epistolography 
in the Correspondence of Elizabeth I 69

Giuliana Iannaccaro and Alessandra Petrina 

The Prefatory/Postscript Letters to St. Thomas More’s Utopia:
The Culture of ‘Seeing’ as a Reality-Conferring Strategy 91

Emmanouil Aretoulakis

Epistolary Networks

The Pragmatics of Sir Thomas Bodley’s Diplomatic Correspondence 117
Gabriella Mazzon
 
The Construction of Epistolary Identity in a Gentry’s Communicative Network 

of the Seventeenth Century: The Case of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon 133
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

ISSN 2279-7149 (online) 
 2013 Firenze University 

ISSN 2279-7149 (online) 
 2013 Firenze University 

Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 3 (2014), pp. 7-8
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Scientific Interaction Within Henry Oldenburg’s Letter Network 151
Maurizio Gotti

Language and Letters in Samuel Richardson’s Networks 173
Donatella Montini

Angles of Refraction: The Letters of Mary Delany 199
Eleonora Chiavetta
  
The Cultural, The Historical, The Fictional 

Michelangelo, a Tireless Letter Writer 219
Adelin Charles Fiorato

The Condition of the Lyon Weavers in the Letters to Louis XV 
and Monseigneur Poulletier (1731 and 1732) 231

Carmelina Imbroscio

Addressing the Addressee: Shakespeare and Early Modern Epistolary Theory 243
Kerry Gilbert-Cooke

Appendix

By Diverse Hands 269

Contributors 323