Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian peninsula. They also show a range of different case-studies and models which share the values and political concepts of the cultural context of diplomatic practice in the ancien régime. While Venice, the Papal States, the duchy of Savoy, Florence (later the duchy of Tuscany), Mantua, Modena, and later the kingdom of Naples may be considered minor states in the broader European context, their diplomatic activity was equal to that of the major powers. This reconstruction of their ambassadors, their secretaries, and their ceremonies offers a fascinating interpretation of the political history of early modern Italy.
- A fascinating account of the way in which 'small' Italian states conducted their foreign diplomatic activity during the early modern period
- Brings insights into the politics and culture of such Italian states as Venice, Mantua, Florence and Naples
- Was the first book on this aspect of the exercise of power in early modern Italy
Reviews & endorsements
"Using a range of models, [the authors] discuss such topics as diplomacy and government in the 15th-century Florence and Venice, Vatican diplomacy, economic and social aspects of the crisis of Venetion diplomacy in the 17th and 18th centuries, Mantua and Modena as small states, and Savoyard diplomacy in the 18th century." Reference & Research Book News
"The book is interesting for Itanlian historian." The International History Review
Product details
March 2011Paperback
9780521189637
272 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.4kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: new perspectives on the diplomacy of Italian states in the early modern period Daniela Frigo
- 1. Diplomacy and government in the Italian city-states of the fifteenth century: Florence and Venice Riccardo Fubini
- 2. Aspects of Medicean diplomacy in the sixteenth century Alessandra Contini
- 3. An outline of Vatican diplomacy in the early modern period Luca Riccardi
- 4. Economic and social aspects of the crisis of Venetian diplomacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Andrea Zannini
- 5. 'Small states' and diplomacy: Mantua and Modena Daniela Frigo
- 6. Neapolitan diplomacy in the eighteenth century: policy and the diplomatic apparatus Maria Grazia Maiorini
- 7. Savoyard diplomacy in the eighteenth century (1684–1798) Christopher Storrs.
