L’avanzata del Turco nelle lettere degli informatori fiorentini in Levante: aggiornamenti politici, ragguagli militari, false notizie (1453-1470)
The Ottomans’ advance in the letters of Florentine informants in the Levant: political updates, military reports, false information (1453-1470)
Abstract
Il presente articolo si propone di indagare la circolazione dell’informazione tra Firenze e Costantinopoli dopo la conquista turca. Verranno dunque passati in rassegna gli aspetti pratici concernenti il viaggio delle notizie, tra cui tempistiche, scali, portatori, per arrivare a descrivere lo sviluppo in tre fasi di un sistema informativo fiorentino nella Romània turca, basato su reti fisse e mobili. Ci si soffermerà poi, come caso di studio, sul traffico di informazioni politico-militari, attraverso il raffronto di fonti edite e inedite.
This article aims to investigate the circulation of information between Florence and Constantinople after the Ottoman conquest. Practical aspects related to the travel of news, such as timing, stops, and carriers, will be examined to describe the development of a Florentine information system in Turkish Romània in three stages, based on both fixed and mobile networks. The contribution will then focus, as a case study, on the traffic of political-military information by comparing published and unpublished sources.
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