The specific aim of this article is to explain the importance of San Sebastian, and other places nearby, in the dissemination of new in the Iberian Peninsula during the last decades of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth... more
The specific aim of this article is to explain the importance of San Sebastian, and other places nearby, in the dissemination of new in the Iberian Peninsula during the last decades of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, at the light of some new evidences we have found. Concretely, we will try to demonstrate the dependence of the news from the border managed around San Sebastian, an important place since the postal system from Flanders through France passed through the city, and how a Trans-Pyrenean news hub appeared to supply news to Spain. The relation of printers from San Sebastian (and other related places) with Saragossa, first, and secondarily with Barcelona, will be stressed too.
Printed descriptions of ceremonies, festivities, and pageants were a growth sector of publishing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Giving particular attention to the publishing format of such works, this article analyzes 110... more
Printed descriptions of ceremonies, festivities, and pageants were a growth sector of publishing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Giving particular attention to the publishing format of such works, this article analyzes 110 examples produced in Rome between 1623 and 1655. The vast majority are quarto pamphlets of no more than sixteen pages. Political, devotional, and commercial motives were driving this type of publication, which participated in the general increase of cheap printed sub-book genres in the seventeenth century. In Baroque Rome ceremonial publications reflected the responsiveness of Catholic monarchs and religious orders to the new possibilities of cheap print as well as the growing commodification of news in these decades.
