Italian Communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) / Nina Lamal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamal, Nina, author.

Series:

Library of the written word ; Volume 109.

Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign news.

Italy--Foreign relations--1559-1789.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]

Summary:

"This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive study of Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries. Nina Lamal provides a compelling account of the deep Italian involvement in this long conflict, also known as the Eighty Years' War. Drawing upon a wide range of sources in manuscript and print, including newsletters, printed pamphlets, political treatises and historical narratives, Lamal investigates how news on the conflict was brought to the Italian peninsula, how it influenced political debates as well as historical discourses. She unravels why it had such an impact in this complex political environment. In doing so, she also casts new light on the meaning of the Revolt itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Conventions

Introduction

1 Entangled Histories

2 Early Modern Communication

Chapter 1 Italian News Networks

1 A New Medium

2 Antwerp in the Headlines

3 Florentine Correspondents

4 The Uses of Information in Medici Florence

Chapter 2 'Much to the Dislike of Italy': The First Political Debates (1577-1578)

1 From Pacification to Rupture

2 Di Castro and Reason of State

3 Understanding the Low Countries

4 Debating Practical Obstacles

5 Fear of French Involvement

Chapter 3 Promoting Spanish-Habsburg Power through Print

1 A Developing Market for News

2 Controlling the Narrative from Oral to Print

3 Selective Narratives of Violence

4 Promoting Habsburg Pacification and Policy

5 'Greater than Alexander the Great'

Chapter 4 Crafting Histories

1 Defending Contemporary History

2 Crafting a Pro-Habsburg Narrative

3 Understanding the Present

4 Claiming 'Italian Virtue': The First Italian History

5 The Farnese Quest for a Suitable History Begins

Chapter 5 'Nothing more than a Flea': Debating and Describing New States (1598-1609)

1 Debating the Dynastic Solution

2 The Issue of Free Trade

3 The Roman Past: Untameable Subjects

4 Debating the Truce

5 'A New Power in the World': Describing a New State

Chapter 6 The Rise of Confessional and Polemical News Pamphlets

1 The Emergence of a Narrative Framework

2 Making Spinola?

3 Growing Divisions

4 Polemical Instruments

Chapter 7 The Development of Italian Historical Narratives

1 The Authors and their Histories

2 Italian Military Prowess

3 Diverging Narratives

4 Defending Farnese

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lamal, Nina Italian Communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648)

ISBN:

9789004538078

OCLC:

1370494609