Using the 1600 Experiment[1] dataset[2] and a set of custom made python scripts, we created a prototype data visualization platform that permits the user to navigate through the data and gives us a vision of the news network from January…
Year: 2020
On monday 13 July, the EURONEWS team gave three lightning talks hosted by the Society for Renaissance Studies. The general theme of this evening was ‘Rediscovering the Medici Avvisi.’ The team higlighted several aspects of the project’s progress. Brendan Dooley…
A LEGIBLE HANDWhen Camillo Baldi investigated the ways and means of detecting human personality through the symbols scrawled by pen on page in a 1622 treatise on “how a single piece of correspondence can reveal the nature and quality of…
Shocking news from Hungary: according to a source in Graz writing on January 17 1600, “By the last letters . . . there is a report that Ibrahim Bassa, after having strangled the chief of the Tatars, as was already…
The difference between these two images is obvious, but it isn’t as substantial as we might think. On the left, there is the New York Times front page of the 27th of March, with a photo, a half page-wide graph…
AN EVENTFUL CONSULTATION DAY On May 18th, 2020 the Euronews team navigated the deep waters of text data mining, topic modeling, and artificial intelligence guided by a crew of experts. Giovanni Colavizza (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at…
A woman sits in the Archive reading room, where she has managed to arrive after many interruptions connected with the details of her PhD degree program. On her table there stands a huge folder containing unbound documents of the first…
May 18th, On Zoom3pm-5:30pm (CEST) On May 18th the EURONEWS project is holding an online Consultation Day on the topic of Texts and Topics: Routes to Meaning in the Forest of Early Modern Words. We will be setting out our…
Now that normality feels so distant, we want to remember what a ‘normal’ day used to look like for our EURONEWS team. Our normal day would start with a nice walk to the Florence State Archive – not the most…
DATE TBD WORKSHOP:THE HANDWRITTEN NEWSLETTERS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEGIORNATA DI STUDIO:AVVISI MANOSCRITTI NELLA PRIMA ETÀ MODERNA The widespread communication of statements and narratives, true and false, regarding current occurrences of common interest, which under the term ‘news’ constitutes a much-discussed…