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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain / Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García, and Luca Lo Basso, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Avisos de Flandes ; Volume 20.
- Avisos de Flandes Series ; Volume 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generals--Spain--Biography.
- Generals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Interdisciplinary study of Spinola's turbulent life Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career.
- Contents:
- 9789462703421_frontcover
- AVISOS_Ambrogio_Spinola_DEF_e
- Ambrogio Spinolabetween Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Ambrogio Spinola: The Threads of a Multiple Past∗
- Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, Luca Lo Basso
- Part I
- Ambrogio and the Spinola of San Luca:Gender and Family Strategies
- Around Ambrogio: The Family Network in Genoa, Milan, and Spain, and Giovanni Botero's Eulogy
- Blythe Alice Raviola
- Federico and Ambrogio Spinola between Mediterranean Corsairs, War in Flanders, and the Invasion of England
- Emiliano Beri
- "Ingrandire la famiglia": Ambrogio Spinola on Honour, War, and Money in his Flanders Correspondence with the Women of his Family∗
- Silvia Mostaccio
- Part II
- Networks: War, Finance, Politics, and Diplomacy
- A Joab for King David: Ambrogio Spinola, General of Archduke Albert, and the Davidic Imaginary in the Time of Philip III (1598-1605)∗
- Alicia Esteban Estríngana
- "The Great Alcandre": Ambrogio Spinola at Court
- Dries Raeymaekers
- The Last Venture: Ambrogio Spinola as Governor of Milan (1629-30)∗
- Davide Maffi
- To Lose One's Honour:
- Ambrogio Spinola's Return to Italy, the Casale Affair, and the End of "Pax Hispanica" (1627-30)*
- Luca Lo Basso
- Part III
- Memory Construction and Appropriation of Ambrogio Spinola's Images
- Spinola's Fame in the News Press
- Nina Lamal &
- Paul Arblaster
- Contesting the Spanish Myth: Republican Shaping of Ambrogio Spinola's Image in Genoese Literature (1608-52)
- Enrico Zucchi
- Ambrogio Spinola in Genoese Art
- Laura Stagno
- "Tempore et Loco": Heroic Rhetoric of Spinola's Fortune, from Military Entrepreneur to Spanish Grandee∗
- Bernardo J. García García
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mostaccio, Silvia Ambrogio Spinola Between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
- ISBN:
- 9789461664723
- 9461664729
- OCLC:
- 1343121323
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