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Republic of Letters

The term has designated, since the Renaissance, a virtual space which transcended territorial entities and brought together European intellectuals through correspondence, encounters and journeys around common values, shared thanks to the use of an equally common language, Latin. This community of the learned persisted up to the first half of the eighteenth century.

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