[Brendan Dooley and Davide Trentacoste]A newsletter sent to the Tuscan court from Venice, dated 12 February 1600, carried the following report, no doubt intended to raise some eyebrows: “From Constantinople they write that an ambassador had arrived at the imperial…
Year: 2023
By Brendan Dooley and Davide Boerio FAKE NEWS, lies, inventions: the news writers were regarded as unreliable, although their work was necessary. Pope Pius V in his Apostolic Constitution of 17 March 1572 wrote “Against the writers and scribes who…
By Brendan Dooley and Andrea Di CarloPolitics on campus? Sometimes of the most serious sort! Consider this report on discussions within the Jesuit College in Madrid in the age of Philip IV, as reported in a newsletter dated April 3,…