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culture and politics of regime change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy, no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494-1559). During those turbulent years, governments rose and fell with dizzying regularity. Some changes of regime were peaceful, while others were more violent. But whenever a new regiment took power, old social tensions were laid bare and new challenges emerged, any of which could easily threaten its survival. This provoked a variety of responses, both from newly established regimes and from their opponents. Constitutional reforms were proposed and enacted, civic rituals were developed, works of art were commissioned, literary works were penned and occasionally, aspects of material culture were pressed into service, as well. Comparative in approach and broad in scope, it offers a provocative new view of the diverse political, culture and economic factors which ensured the survival (or demise) of regimes, not only in 'major' polities like Florence, Rome and Venice, but also in less-well studied regions like Savoy. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, military and political history.
Introduction : regimes and regime change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559 / Alexander Lee and Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Regime change in Sabaudian lands, 1536-1580 / Matthew Vester -- Memories and fantasies of regime change in Spanish Naples / Stephen Cummins -- Chutes and ladders : the twilight of two Lombard families in the Italian Wars / John Gagné -- Regime change in Papal Rome : Pius IV and the Carafa (1559-61) / Miles Pattenden -- The vacant See and regime change in Papal Rome, 1503-1559 / John M. Hunt -- The failed regime of Pope Adrian VI / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- The prince's body : imagining regime change in mid sixteenth-century Florence / Nicholas Scott Baker -- The historiography of regime change in Machiavelli's Discursus reum florentinarum post mortem iunioris Laurentii Medices / Alexander Lee -- Alda Pio Gambara and regime change in Brescia during the Italian Wars / Stephen D. Bowd -- Success in a silent regime change : electoral politics, family strategies, and the Cappello family in early sixteenth-century Venice / Monique O' Connell -- In the name of the marquis, by the hand of the marchioness : epistolary networks and languages of resilience and reaction in Mantua during the League of Cambrai (1509-1510) / Isabella Lazzarini -- Trading and investing during regime changes in Genoa / Carlo Taviani.
edited by Alexander Lee and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Routledge research in early modern history