The Irish were making trouble again, or so it seemed. The year was 1666, and relations between the Irish and the English, only recently becalmed following the close of the tumultuous Cromwellian period, were being roiled by a new crisis,…
A pretender to the Ottoman sultanate; A Greek priest seeking to drum up support for Christian interests in the Levant; a travel account bearing descriptions of songs sung on the streets of Constantinople regarding current events……. but let’s back up…
Sometimes the wrapping is almost as curious as the item itself. In the case of vol. 4028a of the Mediceo del Principato collection at the Archivio di Stato in Florence, the 700 or so folios of handwritten newsletters stored here, mostly…
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5168529As an instrument of communication, the avviso had advantages and disadvantages. Advantages included the simple technology, the straightforward easily recognizable format adaptable to any time or place, the relative freedom of expression accorded to nonprint media, the anonymity, the odor…
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…
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…