1.The invention of the movable type printing; 2.The revolutions of the book, the “Gutenberg galaxy” and the making of the new typographic culture; 3.The commerce of news among the economic, military, and diplomatic élites; 4.The scientific revolution and the republic of letters; 5.Daniello Bartoli and the Istoria of the Jesuit missions; 6.Gazzettes, literary journals, and newsletters; 7.The Encyclopédie: the cultural project, the diffusion, the “Business of Enlightenment”; 8.Geographical explorations and the voyage literature; 9.Readers and readings in the old regime; 10.Orality and manuscript communication; 11.Universities and academies; 12.The places of sociability in Enlightenment Europe.