English Explanatory Dictionary

Republic of Letters

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas, exchanging ideas by circulating handwritten letters.

Word forms

Republic of Letters the Republic of Letters

Etymology

The first known occurrence of the term in its Latin form (Respublica literaria) is in a letter by Francesco Barbaro to Poggio Bracciolini dated July 6, 1417.

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