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

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

"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...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word
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Lamal, Nina.
Place / Publishing House:New York : : BRILL,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word
Physical Description:1 online resource (278 pages)
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Table of 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.

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