INTRODUCTION
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction Emma Claussen, Luca Zenobi Pages 1–35 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac028
PART I. COMPETING TRUTHS: SPEECH, LIBEL AND DEFAMATION Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England Fara Dabhoiwala Pages 39–74 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac029
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England Clare Egan Pages 75–110 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac030
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects Frances Gage Pages 111–140 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac031
PART II. PRINT CULTURE: NEWS, STORYTELLING AND FAITH ‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant Deborah Steinberger Pages 143–171 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac032
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture Emily Butterworth Pages 172–200 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac033
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England Barret Reiter Pages 201–230 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac034
PART III. SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE: DIPLOMACY, TRAVEL AND MEDICINE Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings Chiara De Caprio, Andrea Salvo Rossi Pages 233–260 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac035
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China Emily Teo Pages 261–293 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac036
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy Giulia Delogu Pages 294–317 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac037
AFTERWORD
Givens, pleasures and imaginings Rowan Cerys Tomlinson Pages 319–331 https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac038