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L'Âge d'or du mécénat (1598-1661). Actes du colloque international CNRS (mars 1983), Le Mécénat en France avant Colbert (Paris: CNRS, 1985).

Bots, Hans, and Waquet, Françoise, La République des Lettres (Paris: Belin, 1997).

Brockliss, Lawrence W. B., French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a Cultural History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).

Chapelain, Jean, Lettres de Jean Chapelain ..., Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, ed. (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1880-1883), 2 vols.

Châtelain, Jean-Marc, "Heros togatus: culture cicéronienne et gloire de la robe dans la France d'Henri IV," Journal des Savants (1991), pp. 263-287.

Church, William F., Richelieu and Reason of State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972).

Delatour, Jérôme, "Pierre Dupuy pamphlétaire," --------------

Elliott, J. H., Richelieu and Olivares (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Evans, Robert J. W., "Learned Societies in Germany in the Seventeenth Century," European Studies Review, 7 (1977), pp. 129-151.

---- Rudolf II and his World, a Study in Intellectual History, 1576-1612 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984; first ed., 1973).

Fattori, Marta, "La Stratégie épistolaire de la Respublica literaria," in La Biografia intellettuale di René Descartes attraverso la Corrospondance (Naples: Vivarium, 1999), pp. 49-79.

Fumaroli, Marc, "La République des Lettres," Diogène, 143 (1988), pp. 131-150.

---- "La République des Lettres, I," Annuaire du Collège de France, 1987-1988 (Paris: Collège de France,1989).

Germain, Michel (Dom), Lettres d'Italie, Jean Paul McDonald, ed. (Florence: Olschki, 1992).

Goldgar, Anne, Impolite Learning. Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1775 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).

Grafton, Anthony, Joseph Scaliger. A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. I. Textual Criticism and Exegisis. II. Historical Chronology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983-1993).

Harris Harbison, Elmore, The Christian Scholar in the Age of the Reformation. (New York: Scribner, 1956).

Le Clerc, Jean, Epistolario, Maria Grazia and Mario Sina, eds (Florence: Olschki, 1987-1997), 4 vols.

Le Gall, Jean-Marie, "Lectures méditerranéennes d'Érasme au XVIe siècle," Revue Historique, 302/2 (2000), pp. 435-443.

Le Goff, Jacques, Les Intellectuels au Moyen Âge (Paris: Seuil, 1957).

Malettke, Klaus, "Die Perzeption des Deutschen Reiches bei Théodore Godefroy," in Rainer Babel, ed., Frankreich im Europäischen Staatensystem der Frühen Neuzeit (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke Verlag, 1995), pp. 153-178.

Martin, Henri-Jean, Livre, pouvoirs et société à Paris au XVIIe siècle (1598-1701) (Genève: Droz, 1969), 2 vols.

---- La Naissance du livre moderne (Paris: Éditions du Cercle de la librairie, 2000).

Morford, Mark, Stoics and Neostoics. Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Najemy, John M., "Machiavelli and Geta: Men of Letters," in A. R. Ascoli and V. Kahn, eds, Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

Nelles, Paul, "Historia magistra antiquitatis: Cicero and Jesuit History Teaching," Renaissance Studies, 13 (1999), pp. 130-172.

Neveu, Bruno, Érudition et religion au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994).

Oestreich, Gerhard, Neostoicism and the Early Modern State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Patronage and Institutions. Science, Technology and Medicine at the European Court, 1500-1750, Bruce T. Moran, ed. (Rochester: Boydell Press, 1991).

Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de, Lettres à Naudé (1629-1637), Philippe Wolfe, ed. (Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1983).

---- Lettres à Claude Saumaise et à son entourage (1629-1637), Agnès Bresson, ed. (Florence: Olschki, 1992).

Pomian, Krzysztof, Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux: Paris-Venise XVIe-XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 1987).

---- "Utopia i Poznanie Historyczne: ideal République des Lettres i narodziny postulatu obiektywnosci historyka," Studia Filozoficzne, 40 (1965), pp. 21-76 (with a summary in English).

Schalk, Fritz, "Erasmus und die Respublica literaria," Actes du congrès Érasme ... Rotterdam, 27-29 octobre 1969 (Amsterdam, London: North Holland Publishing Company, 1971), pp. 14-28.

Stroup, Alice, A Company of Scientists. Botany, Patronage and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990).

Tuck, Richard, Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Ultee, Maarten, "The Republic of Letters: Learned Correspondence, 1680-1720," The Seventeenth Century, 2 (1987), pp. 95-112.

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Footnotes

 1. Some classical works deserve mention here: P. O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought; the Classic, Scholastic, and Humanist Strains (New York: Harper and Row, 1961); G. Mattingly, "Changing attitudes toward the state during the Renaissance" in W. H. Werkmeister, ed, Facets of the Renaissance (Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1959); J. H. Hexter, More's Utopia: the Biography of an Idea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952); N. Eurich, Science in Utopia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967); and H. Bots and F. Waquet, La République des Lettres (Belin: de Boeck, 1997).

2. C. R. Sherman, Imagining Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-century France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), passim; and S. M. Babbit, "Oresme's Livre de Politiques and the France of Charles V," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 75 (1985), passim.

3. H. Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).

4. Research on the evolution of comparative government has not attracted systematic attention by historians since the older literature on the "new monarchies." See my "Monarchy in Action," available on this website: Monarchy in Action

5. There were, of course, exceptions, an important one being Erasmus, who for most of his life remained engaged in the political dialogue between the Dutch cities and the provincial estates. See J. Tracy, Erasmus of the Low Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pp. 96f.

6. Men and Ideas, trans. J. S. Holmes and H. van Marle (New York: Meridien, 1959), pp 77-96.

7. Tracy, passim.

8. I cite Gadoffre: G. Gadoffre, La Revolution culturelle dans la France des Humanistes (Paris, 1997).

9.  Hexter, p. 133.

10. C. Nauert, "Erasmus's Spiritual Homeland: the Evidence of his 1527 Will," in R. B. Barnes, et al., Books Have Their Own Destiny, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, no. L (Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University, 1998), pp. 103-110.

11. Budé is opposed to wars of conquest, yet he heroicizes Alexander the Great and Caesar. [And Francis I is Cesar, cf Louise de Savoie] His remark about the absence of a head proportionate to the strength of the other members in both France and Germany permits him to infer that it would be a worthwhile effort to join the empire and the monarchy, as "they had been in the past," under a single powerful head. At no point in the Institution does he refer to royal rights over imperial territories, a move that the Godefroys, the Dupuys, and Mabillon would make as they became "feudistes" about French and other European laws and customs. Le Prince dans la France des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ed. by C. Bontems, L.-P. Raybaud, and J.-P. Brancourt (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965), p. 116. Much has been written about Budé's relations with Erasmus. See D. O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanist in the Reign of Francis I (Geneva: Droz, 1975), pp. 66-76

12. J. Delatour, "De l'art de plaider doctement; les notes de lecture de Pierre Dupuy, jeune avocat (1605-1606)," Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 153 (1999), pp. 391-412.

13. M. Fumaroli, L'Âge d'Éloquence; Rhétorique et "res literaria" de la Renaissance au seuil de l'époque classique (Geneva: Droz, 1980), passim.

14. Fumaroli, pp. 153-161.

15. J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 297-299, and passim.

16. R. Tuck, Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 56ff.

17. Tuck, pp. 45-63.

18. Tuck, p. 60.

19. M. Morford, Stoics and Neostoics; Rubens and his Circle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), pp. 29-32.

20. Tuck, p. 61.

21. P. Zagorin, Ways of Lying; Dissimulation, Persecution and Conformity in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), passim. Bodin treats the matter in his Methodus...; for Montaigne et Lipsius, Tuck, pp. 56-57; for Bacon, see in addition to the above, Zagorin's Francis Bacon (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 143.

22. J. Franklin, Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolute Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), passim; K. Pennington, The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993), pp. 269-290.

23. Brilliant new syntheses notwithstanding, see H. Outram Evennet, The Spirit of the Counter-Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), passim; and A. Soman, "Press, Pulpit, and Censorship in France before Richelieu," Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, 120 (1976), passim.

24. A. Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c 1800 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995); and Engelbert of Admont, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Juan de Torcquemada, Three Tracts on Empire, trans. and ed. by T. M. Izbicki and C. J. Nederman (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000).

25. S. Gaukroger, Descartes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 290; see also G. Rodis-Lewis, Descartes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), p. 71. On the vitality of Aristotelian thought and its continuing importance to Descartes, D. Des Chene, Physiologia; Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian Thought (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996) passim.

26. No general study of the education of princes and princesses across the two centuries exists; Jean Meyer is currently at work on one. For a survey of what could be generated around a princely education, see the dated by indispensable G. Lacour-Gayet, L'Éducation politique de Louis XIV (Paris: Hachette, 1923), passim.

27. On Bacon, see P. Zagorin, Francis Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998), p. 87.

28. C. N. F. de Peiresc, Lettres à Claude Saumaise et à son entourage (1620-37), ed. by A. Bresson (Florence: Olschki, 1992), passim, but especially pp. 388-392.

29. Wolfgang Hermann, "Unknown Designs for the Temple of Jerusalem by Claude Perrault," in R. Wittkower and I. Jaffe, eds, Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution (New York: Fordham University Press, 1972), pp. 143-158; and René Taylor,"Hermetism and Mystical Architecture in the Society of Jesus," in R. Wittkower and I. Jaffe, eds, Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution (New York: Fordham University Press, 1972), pp. 63-97.

30. The jurist that he was, Peiresc researched (and asked for Saumaise's help) on the thorny issue of on what grounds someone could be prosecuted for military cowardice. Peiresc, Aix, 22 April 1636, p. 259.

31. F. Conrad, "A Preservation against Tyranny: the Political Ideology of Sir Thomas Elyot," (Ph. D. dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 1988) on reading ancient sources about friendship and politics by a sixteenth-century, somewhat learned gentleman; and Morford, passim.

32. See my Artisans of Glory; Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-century France (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980), p. 192.

33. Specialized studies have correct and expanded upon P. Clément's general synthesis of the relations between the state and learned culture in general, but it still offers a point of departure: Histoire de Colbert (Paris: Perrin, 1892) II, chaps. 26-27.

34. See my "Clemency in Corneille and Richelieu," Cahiers de l'Histoire, Université de Montréal, 16 (1996), pp. 80-100. [We should talk about Corneille and Richelieu!]

35.The promotional aspects of the learned in symbiotic relation with the powerful, reached an apogee in the personal reign of Louis XIV, as ancient Roman exemplarity and biography came to be understood and surpassed; see my Artisans of Glory..., passim. A model study of learned self-promotion is L. Jardine's Erasmus, Man of Letters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), and an interesting example of the support by a publisher is elucidated by C. Jouhaud, Les Pouvoirs de la Littérature (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), chap. I.

36. David M. Posner, The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 80-121.

37. Tommaso Campanella's inability to conform to the socially-imagined image of the scholar-man of letters is brilliantly elucidated by J. Headley, Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). See also Anne Goldgar's Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). Mention must also be made of both Hobbes's and Locke's intimate political engagement in aristocratic parties. On the former, see the brief, brilliant "Thomas Hobbes and the studia humanitatis," in Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-century England, D. Hirst and R. Strier, eds, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 69-88.

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