Lingua e linguaggio nei dispacci di Gasparo Contarini

My research has focused on the writing of a critical edition of Gasparo Contarini's dispatches when he was ambassador of the Republic of Venice in Rome to the pope Clements VII (1528-1530). I analyzed Contarini's political lexicon with a particular attention on the new lexical entries and the communicative strategies used in the diplomatic dispatches. The letters are stored in the Marciana National Library and the National Archive of Venice. These letters are worth to be studied since they both give important historical information and present Contarini's ability to make a portrait of the most relevant political characters of the Roman Renaissance.