The revolutionary events in England aroused a remarkable amount of attention in contemporary Italian historiography. There are numerous works specifically dedicated to those events and a simple list of them bears witness to this interest. From a quick examination of this simple list of works dedicated to the English events of the 1640s and 1650s, it clearly emerges that the greater part of these authors commonly belonged to the Venetian Academy of the Incogniti, founded by Giovan Francesco Loredano in 1630 and dissolved around 1660 – an academy that was, as is well known, one of the major centers of the dissemination of nonconformist and “libertine” tendencies in Italy in the seventeenth century.
The English Civil Wars and the Interregnum in Italian Historiography in the 17th century
VILLANI, STEFANO
2006-01-01
Abstract
The revolutionary events in England aroused a remarkable amount of attention in contemporary Italian historiography. There are numerous works specifically dedicated to those events and a simple list of them bears witness to this interest. From a quick examination of this simple list of works dedicated to the English events of the 1640s and 1650s, it clearly emerges that the greater part of these authors commonly belonged to the Venetian Academy of the Incogniti, founded by Giovan Francesco Loredano in 1630 and dissolved around 1660 – an academy that was, as is well known, one of the major centers of the dissemination of nonconformist and “libertine” tendencies in Italy in the seventeenth century.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
