English to Italian Art/Literary History xvii secolo, documentazione contabile

The consideration paid to structuring the decision-making process
and its related documentation illustrates a significant characteristic of
the world of the written word in the seventeenth century. Documents of
all kinds, in academic and civil society, were now increasingly important
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to how European societies functioned. The detail of how documents
worked, and the parts they are constructed from, was becoming a
matter for close attention. A cluster of new questions surrounds written
documents by the end of the seventeenth century; mostly they focus
on questions of identity. How can we ensure that documents are
what they purport to be? How can we guarantee accurate and effective
record-keeping? Who wrote this document and when? What rights
attach to that AUTORSHIP?