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then read by church and government officials as well as the nobility. Such was the partisan (and sometimes scandalous) comments on public affairs that they became censored by the Pope and several copyists were imprisoned or executed. Venetian avvisi, however, were more conservative in their coverage of such events and more preoccupied with commercial matters. This is not to say that there was no public criticism of public figures in Venice, but rather they often took other forms such as in satire performed during the
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produced and consumed print, and the participation in
European political and commercial correspondence networks by Venetians as a necessity of trade. In fact, Venice's print industry was so large that its 150 presses by the end of the 16th century more than double its closest rival (Paris), and accounted for between one seventh and one eighth of the European output in that period. However, the Italians' production of news would eventually fall behind in output and readership to German news writers.
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in the late 1500s, which both limited production of hand-written avvisi and forbade "disclosure of information". The disclosure of state secrets to other rulers carried the death penalty. After the execution of a newswriter in
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were still useful, however, to understand propaganda campaigns by other states, possible trends in public opinion, or international reception of one's own government and so were still analyzed. For example, Roman coverage of the Papal reception of
Protestant German princes in 1601 mentions this was
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Italian, but over time they began receiving them as part of complete translations of zeitungen. As a consequence, news from Central and Western Europe began to spread throughout Italy in almost identical versions due to
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quickly became a political tool that paralyzed government functionaries, while the sharing of rare avvisi was used to strengthen alliances. The news sheets became highly useful in warfare, such as in the management of logistics or predicting the progress of conflict. Such was their importance that
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Italian world in Rome and Venice. In the Middle Ages, diplomats, merchants, and scholars would gather information and keep records about news that were relevant to them through journals, account books, and letters. The latter of these
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European society in the transitionary period during the introduction of the printing press. The regular publishing schedule and public reading of these news sheets display a complex and active intellectual and cultural life in European courts and
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The avvisi would then be distributed by regular news services and organized courier networks. Whether newsletters were sent weekly, bi-weekly, or annually depended on the type of news and the writer. Payment for them also varied in form, initially only being offered per-unit and in secret, but
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The German zeitungen were also somewhat different in content to the avvisi, usually a third shorter and would mention much fewer people. In addition, zeitungen would usually report four or five items, whereas the number of items and detail in avvisi would vary based on proximity to the events.
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Italian cities were able to institute control measures in response. These were often draconian, such as in the case of a Milanese courier that was shot to death in 1575 by order of
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major cities through which the novel printing technology could rapidly spread and be adopted. Furthermore, they show that modern newspapers were not a sudden introduction in society but rather an evolved form of previous ways of reporting information of interest.
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eventually evolving into the possibility of regular, standardized subscriptions. The range of information presented within avvisi was very broad, including countries within Europe but also developments in the
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