Francesco Pucci e Thomas Bodley. Un’intima amicizia intellettuale tra Londra e Oxford (1573-1576)

Thomas Bodley and Francesco Pucci: the former was an internationally known diplomat and patron, the founder of one of the oldest libraries in the western world, while the latter was a Florentine merchant, a religious polemicist, a theologian, and philosopher branded a heretic by Catholics and Protestants alike. In the light of three previously unpublished letters held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, presented here for the first time in the original Latin version, this article reconstructs their intellectual friendship in early 1570s England and their relationship with the main figures of the English academic culture of the time.