The Refugee-Diplomat : Venice, England, and the Reformation / Diego Pirillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pirillo, Diego, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomacy--History--16th century.

Diplomacy.

Protestants--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Protestants.

Religious refugees--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Religious refugees.

Venice (Italy)--Foreign relations--1508-1797.

Venice (Italy).

England--Foreign relations--Italy--Venice.

England.

Venice (Italy)--Foreign relations--England.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. In The Refugee-Diplomat, Diego Pirillo offers an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the refugee-diplomat" and, more specifically, Italian religious dissidents who forged ties with English and northern European Protestants in the hope of inspiring an Italian Reformation.Pirillo reconsiders how diplomacy worked, not only within but also outside of formal state channels, through underground networks of individuals who were able to move across confessional and linguistic borders, often adapting their own identities to the changing political conditions they encountered. Through a trove of diplomatic and mercantile letters, inquisitorial records, literary texts, marginalia, and visual material, The Refugee-Diplomat recovers the agency of religious refugees in international affairs, revealing their profound impact on the emergence of early modern diplomatic culture and practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. When Diplomacy Fails

Chapter 2. Tudor Diplomacy and Italian Heterodoxy

Chapter 3. Spying on the Council of Trent

Chapter 4. The Merchant, the Queen, and the Refugees

Chapter 5. Reading Tasso

Chapter 6. Reading Venetian Relazioni

Chapter 7. Great Expectations

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781501715334

150171533X

OCLC:

1041193472