The collection of the Western European manuscripts gathered by N.P. Likhachev (1862–1936) and currently stored in the Scientific and Historical archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences contains, among other documents, the vast majority of this array...

This study presents research on a set of Venetian lettere ducali of the 14th to mid-16th centuries and the preparation of their full-text publication. Due to their diplomatic and palaeographic characteristics, the lettere ducali stored in St. Petersburg are an example of well-developed chancery...

This paper is focused on the image of the Other in early modern European imperial discourses as exemplified by Venetian discourse about Istria and English discourse about Ireland, which have not been previously compared, in the narratives by Pietro Coppo, Fynes Moryson, John Davies and Barnabe...

This study presents survey on the forming collection of N.P. Likhachev (1862-1936), a great collector and Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, throughout his life and research interests. In some ways this collection was unique for Russia of that time. As a researcher and a collector,...

This paper is focused on the issues of cultural hierarchies in early modern European imperial discourses in all-European discourse about Muscovy and Ottoman Empire and English discourse about Ireland, which have not been previously compared, in the narratives by Petrus Petreus, Paul Rycaut,...

This paper is focused on the image of the past of the Other in the early modern European writings as exemplified by Italian discourse about Transylvania in the narrative by Ciro Spontone.The article analyzes the use of such categories as “antiquity" and “past" applied to the territory and...

This study is focused on the Italian vernacular text written by Simone Luzzatto "Discourse on the State of the Jews". It is important to observe the narrative of this seventeenth century Venetian rabbi in two aspects: firstly, how he tried to incorporate Jews into the Venetian Republic,...