Almási, Gábor, Humanistic Letter-Writing, in: EGO

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In Antiquity the letter was defined as a conversation between absent
friends. This "familiar letter" was rediscovered during the early
Renaissance, eventually leading to a revolution in epistolography.
However, as Latin was a prestigious language learnt at school by reading
masters of eloquence, it was less suited to the plain style than the
vernacular, which started dominating letter-writing from the second half
of the 16th century. This article argues that the humanist letter was a
semi-public literary form, and that it was this feature which allowed for
its many different uses. Among the functions of correspondence,
networking and knowledge distribution are emphasised.