For a while, I’ve been idly compiling a list of early modern correspondence projects, inspired by Adam Mosley’s book “Bearing the Heavens” (for which Tycho Brahe’s correspondence was a key resource). Tonight, though, I finally decided to get round to finishing it up and publishing it as a static page on the blog: and so here is my list of correspondence projects.
…but just as I was doing this, I stumbled across a wonderful epistolary bibliography posted up by the Scaliger Project at the Warburg Institute, which made my own effort look remarkably puny and useless. It was as if, well, my car was looking at a “Pimp My Ride” version of itself from a future which would never actually happen. That is: awesome, but also depressing.
Still, since the two lists have a non-zero amount of non-overlap, I’ve left mine up anyway. Oh well… enjoy! 🙂