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Author Levin, Michael Jacob

Title Agents of empire : Spanish ambassadors in sixteenth-century Italy / Michael J. Levin
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Diplomacy in Venice -- Diplomacy in Rome under Charles V -- Philip II and the papacy, 1556-1573 -- Philip II and the papacy, 1573-1598 -- Special problems and ordinary duties in Rome -- The ambassadors as intelligence officers -- The ambassadors as cultural contacts
Summary "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 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."--Jacket
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Katholische Kirche Sancta Sedes gnd
Subject Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Papal States -- History -- 16th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Intelligence & Espionage.
Ambassadors
Diplomatic relations
Botschafter
Diplomatie
Ambassadeurs.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
SUBJECT Spain -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Venice
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Spain
Spain -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Papal States
Papal States -- Foreign relations -- Spain
Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1516-1700. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126057
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00009510
Subject Europe -- Papal States
Italy -- Venice
Spain
Italien
Spanien
Venedig
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501727634
150172763X