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