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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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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.