Republic of Letters

短语

文人共和国

词形变化

the Republic of Letters

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

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

    文人共和国

    文坛共和国

    历史

词源

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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