Janus: Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro (Mar 2015)
Pellicer y la prensa de su tiempo
Abstract
José Pellicer de Tovar's Avisos constitute an important element in the history of the news media in 17th-c. Spain. Being a weekly manuscript news service for the benefit of one or more private clients, the Avisos followed similar lines to the Italian gazettes studied by Mario Infelise. The present study aims to analyse Pellicer's Avisos by setting them against other news media of his time, in particular earlier Spanish gazettes, the series of numbered news letters and the relations attributed to Andrés de Almansa y Mendoza, the French Gazette founded by Théophraste Renaudot, the private correspondence of Quevedo, and the so-called relaciones de sucesos.
