L'Arcadie : un réseau académique italien au siècle des Lumières

This article examines the academy degli Arcadi, founded in Rome in October 1690, through its institutional, epistolary, and relational networks. The originality of this academy is to be composed of 103 local settlements, in addition to the Roman site, called colonies, distributed almost entirely in the cities of the Italian peninsula. This paper studies the constitution of the institutional network between 1690 and 1800, then analyzes the epistolary network and the peninsular coordination organized from Rome. It will also question the circulations and the mobilities of the members of Arcadia. This study is based on the epistolary archives of the academy degli Arcadi. [Publisher's text]