Il Ducato della Carniola nelle gazzette italiane del secondo Settecento

Printed newspapers (among which there are prevalently political newspapers, not so much literary or bi-bliographical ones) represent an important phenomenon in the history of communication, culture and pu-blishing in the 18th century, and reflect, at least partially, the position of towns and countries within the information flow of the old regime. They show to a certain extent the geopolitical dimension of public opinion of that time on these towns and countries. In the light of these reflections, we discuss the presen-ce of the news related to the territory of the Duchy of Carniola (which partially corresponds to present-day Slovenia) in some 18th century Italian newspapers, in particular in the last decades of the 18 th century. The paper focuses on two types of data collected using different methodologies. First, news taken from “Gazzetta goriziana” (1774-1776), the oldest weekly newspaper published in present-day Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, are studied systematically. Second, we look at the news on the Duchy of Carniola in the pa-ges of other Italian newspapers.