La diplomazia culturale di Luchaire nella Firenze di primo Novecento

The paper is focused on the network of transnational intellectual relations and the political-cultural activity of Luchaire in Florence from the foundation of the French Institute (1907) to his departure for Paris in the post-war period. Through the analysis of periodicals, correspondence (published and unpublished), memoirs are explored the historical roots and the political use of "Latinity" in the different contexts and stages of the First World War and are raised questions on the politicization of intellectual work between opinion-forming process, propaganda and “new diplomacy”.