The culture and politics of regime change in Italy, c. 1494-c.1559 / edited by Alexander Lee and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Alexander (Historian), editor.

Maxson, Brian, 1978- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City-states--Italy--History--16th century.

City-states.

Regime change--Italy--History--16th century.

Regime change.

Italy--History--1492-1559.

Italy.

Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of five acclaimed books, including Machiavelli: His Life and Times (2020) and Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy (2018). Brian Jeffrey Maxson is professor of history at East Tennessee State University, USA. He has co-edited several projects and is the author of A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (2022) and The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2014).

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Culture and politics of regime change in Italy, c. 1494-c.1559

ISBN:

9781003199021

100319902X

9781000685602

1000685608

9781000685657

1000685659

Publisher Number:

40031529146

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Restricted for use by site license.