Studi di archivistica, bibliografia, paleografia

‘Dopo i giornali’: avvisi, gazzette e relazioni in un Flugblatt del 1632

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Abstract

The article describes a Flugblatt - a leaflet- published in 1632, in order to emphasize how images and texts convey the complexity of information during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). By reproducing the main figures and the activities of a Kramladen, a workshop in which various types of information products are written and sold – newsletters, gazettes, reports, calendars and pamphlets of all sorts - the engraving and the associated texts reveal, on the one hand, the techniques and the potential of printed and handwritten news, as well as its possibility to reach a wider audience, benefiting from the same circuits of travelling theaters and peddlers. On the other hand, however, the Flugblatt presents itself as a caricature of the world of news and reveals the growing skepticism of the European public towards the profession of the newswriter and the reliability of printed news, increasingly associated with war propaganda.


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Submitted: May 22, 2023 | Published Oct. 23, 2023 | Language: it

Keywords Early Modern Information • Newsletters • Printing • Flugblätter • Propaganda • Thirty Years War

Copyright © 2023 Paola Molino. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-727-2/023


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