Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Shifting Telos of Traveling Libraries

STEFANO GULIZIA is visiting assistant professor at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Bucharest. He specializes in intellectual history and philosophy, particularly with regard to issues of early modern science, collecting, and sixteenth-century printed culture. He has recently published articles in Nuncius (on Spanish cosmography), in Humanistica, Society and Politics, and Erasmus Studies; other forthcoming works include chapters in edited volumes on the Greek Sophists, the courtly culture of Francis I, and networks of European drama. He is currently finishing Domesticating Aristotelian Learning in Seventeenth-Century Padua, a book on the information technology of Galileo’s entourage. In 2018, he will begin a new investigation on the Mediterranean circulation of knowledge, partially funded by the Mellon Foundation and a grant from the University of California.