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This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. But this picture is both incomplete and inaccurate, and in this important new survey Eric Cochrane has at last given the period its due.Cochrane, Eric is the author of 'Italy 1530-1630 (Longman History of Italy Series)' with ISBN 9780582491441 and ISBN 0582491444.
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