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Agents of empire : Spanish ambassadors in sixteenth-century Italy /

"Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica." In this book, based on exten...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levin, Michael Jacob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Diplomacy in Venice
  • Diplomacy in Rome under Charles V
  • Philip II and the papacy, 1556-1573
  • Philip II and the papacy, 1573-1598
  • Special problems and ordinary duties in Rome
  • The ambassadors as intelligence officers
  • The ambassadors as cultural contacts.