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John Gallagher: Early Modern News, 19 February 2026
Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe
by Rachel Midura.
Cornell, 316 pp., £23.99, March 2025,978 1 5017 7992 3 Show More
by Rachel Midura.
Cornell, 316 pp., £23.99, March 2025,
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
by Joad Raymond Wren.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £40, July 2025,978 0 241 18853 8 Show More
by Joad Raymond Wren.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £40, July 2025,
“... the latest intelligence along with a bulging mailbag sweetened the deal. With Habsburg backing, Rachel Midura writes in Postal Intelligence, the Tassis ‘translated a northern Italian technology of running mail in relay into a powerful international network’. The ‘Italian Road’ that crossed the Padan Plain and the ‘German Road’ that passed ... ”
