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‘Virtual Unfolding’ Used to Read Unopened Renaissance Letters

The Brienne trunk is a 17th-century trunk of letters bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum in The Hague. The trunk belonged to one of the most active postmaster and postmistress of the day, Simon and ...
Penn Live

Renaissance-era letter sealed for centuries has been virtually unfolded and read for the first time

Before the invention of sealed envelopes, how did one insure the privacy of sensitive correspondence? A Live Science report explains that for centuries the method used to avert “prying eyes” was a ...
Oregonian

This Renaissance-era letter remained sealed for centuries. But experts figured out how to virtually unfold and read it for the first time

Before the invention of sealed envelopes, how did one insure the privacy of sensitive correspondence? A Live Science report explains that for centuries the method used to avert “prying eyes” was a ...

Peter Matthiessen, mystical Renaissance man

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist ...