The first Spanish newspaper published again in a critical edition

Professor Díaz-Noci, a researcher with the DigiDoc research group, is involved in this book that recovers and studies the first gazette to appear in the Iberian Peninsula. 1618 is the year in which the appearance of the first Spanish newspaper can be established, of which eleven issues published in Valencia are known and is now being recovered in the critical edition Gaceta de Roma (Valencia, Felipe Mey, 1618-1620). Estudio y edición crítica del primer diario español (2020, A Coruña, SIELAE) The work was conducted by three academics, including Javier Díaz-Noci , a researcher with the DigiDoc research group at the UPF Department of Communication , together with the researchers Rafael Soto , of the University of Alcalá de Henares, and professor Carmen Espejo-Cala , from the University of Sevilla. According to the authors, the background to the periodical dates from "just immediately after the outbreak of the Bohemian Revolt, which gave rise, in the summer of 1618, the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). This event was decisive in the final leap to the emergence of periodical or semi-periodical informative publications in Europe. In this context, a gazette was published in Rome, of which no known copies have survived, and which shortly after a Valencian printer, Francisco Felipe Mey, had translated, printed and distributed in Spanish for three years, between 1618 and 1620, in Valencia". Today, eleven copies of the gazette are known about and are kept at the Royal Library of Turin (Italy), which professor Espejo-Cala , one of the best Spanish and European scholars of the journalism of the period, identified as a series and, ultimately, the first actual Spanish newspaper.