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Agents of Empire - Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover)
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Agents of Empire - Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover)
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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
emissaries in Rome and Venice, drawing us into a world of intrigue
and occasional violence as the Spaniards attempted to manipulate
the crosscurrents of Italian and papal politics to serve their own
ends. Levin's often-colorful account uncovers the vibrant world of
late Renaissance diplomacy in which popes were forced to flee down
secret staircases and ambassadors too often only narrowly avoided
assassination. An important contribution to our understanding of
the nature and limits of the Spanish imperial system, Agents of
Empire more broadly highlights the centrality of diplomatic history
to any consideration of the politics of empire.
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