Corantos were early informational broadsheets, precursors to newspapers. Beginning around the 14th century, a system developed where letters of news and philosophical discussion would be sent to a central collecting point to be bundled and sent around to the various correspondents. The banking house of Fugger had an organized system of collecting ...
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• (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.
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(from the article `newsletter`) Forerunners of modern newsletters were the `corantos`—single-page collections of news items from foreign journals. They were circulated by the Dutch ... These were all learned styles, Latinate and sophisticated, but the appearance in the 1620s of the first corantos, or courants (news books)...
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