Spain in Italy Politics, Society, and Religion 1500-1700

The nineteen essays of Spain in Italy provide a nuanced analysis of the reciprocal nature of Spanish-Italian relations and the rich cultural production that resulted from the far-reaching exchanges between the two peninsulas throughout the early period. The key political seventeenth-century Spanish imperial domination in Italy - formal (Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, Milan), informal (Rome, Genoa, Tuscany), and more neutral or independent (Venice) - introduces the investigation in this volume into the methods and mechanisms of control and collaboration, Cooperation and cooptation, assimilation and resistance. The connections between topics and problems in social, administrative, economic, and cultural history follow from political theory and practice. Politics, society, economy, and religion help us see both Spain and Italy more clearly. Book jacket.Dandelet, Thomas J. is the author of 'Spain in Italy Politics, Society, and Religion 1500-1700', published 2006 under ISBN 9789004154292 and ISBN 9004154299.