Agents of Empire
Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a pax hispanica. In this book, based on extensive research in the papers of the ambassadors who represented Charles V and Philip II, Michael J. Levin instead reveals the true fragility of Spanish control and the ambiguous nature of its impact on Italian political and cultural life.While exploring the nature and weaknesses of Spanish imperialism in the sixteenth century, Levin focuses on the activities of Spain's em…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2763-4
- EAN: 9781501727634
- Produktnummer: 27663414
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 25'929 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 map, 4 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Michael J. Levin
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