Fact and Ideology in the Reporting of News about Italy from 1600 to the Unification

Nicholas Brownlees was Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Florence, Italy, until his retirement in 2023. He has written extensively on news discourse in the early modern era and is most recently the editor/author of The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse (2021) and The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (2023).

Brendan Dooley is currently Professor of Renaissance studies at University College Cork, Ireland. He works on the histories of culture and knowledge with reference to Europe and especially to Italy and the Mediterranean world. Publications include Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy and A Mattress Maker’s Daughter, the Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza.

Stefano U. Baldassarri (Director, International Studies Institute Florence, Italy) holds a PhD from Yale University, USA and one from the Università di Firenze, Italy. He has authored, edited, and co-edited some 30 books. He has published about 90 scholarly articles in international journals such as Interpres, Italian Quarterly, Modern Language Notes, Rinascimento, and Viator. Since their inception, he has been editor and co-editor of Machiavelliana and Rivista di Letteratura Storiografica Italiana, respectively.