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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Place / Publishing House: | New York : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2023. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of the Written Word
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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.