Autografia ed Epistolografia tra XI e XIII Secolo

“Dear friend, I am writing this letter to you by my own hand”: this is what the medieval authors say, whose testimonies are collected and analyzed here. In a world in which the majority of intellectuals did not write in their own hands but composed by dictating to a secretary, the epistolary context represents one of the contexts in which the practice of autography and its renewed development developed, anticipating their diffusion in age modern.