This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559.
Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494–1559). During those turbulent years, governments rose and fell with dizzying regularity. Some changes of regime were peaceful; others were more violent. But whenever a new reggimento took power, old social tensions were laid bare and new challenges emerged – any of which could easily threaten its survival. This provoked a variety of responses, both from newly established regimes and from their opponents. Constitutional reforms were proposed and enacted; civic rituals were developed; works of art were commissioned; literary works were penned; and occasionally, aspects of material culture were pressed into service, as well. Comparative in approach and broad in scope, it offers a provocative new view of the diverse political, culture, and economic factors, which ensured the survival (or demise) of regimes – not only in "major" polities like Florence, Rome, and Venice, but also in less-well-studied regions like Savoy.
This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, political, and military history.
Author(s): Alexander Lee, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 284
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Regimes and Regime Change in Italy, C.1494–c.1559
Notes
Bibliography
1 Regime Change in the Sabaudian Lands, 1536–1580
The Strategic Political Context
Types of Regime Change
(a) Dynastic
(b) Coerced
(c) Negotiated
(d) Hidden
Experiencing Regime Change
(a) Uncertainty
(b) Symbolic Action
(c) Division
(d) Regional Variation
The Structural Impact of Regime Change
(a) Military-Territorial
(b) Institutional
(c) Political
Notes
Bibliography
2 Memories and Fantasies of Regime Change in Spanish Naples
Between History and Stereotype
The Calabrian Conspiracy and Tommaso Campanella
Conspiracy and Regime Change After 1647–1648
Notes
Bibliography
3 Chutes and Ladders: The Twilight of Two Lombard Families in the Italian Wars
Dal Verme Versus Sanseverino
Serial Regimes and Radicalization
Twists in the Italian Wars
Olgisio and the Fate of Northern Italy
Olgisio at Trial, 1567
Phenomenology of Regime Change
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa (1559–1561)
Regime Change in Papal Rome: Theory and Practice
The Carafa and the Conditions for a Post-Facto “Coup”
Executing the “Coup”
After the Executions: Moral Hazard
Notes
Bibliography
5 The Vacant See and Regime Change in Papal Rome, 1503–1559
The Pope’s Death as Regime Change
Protesting the Old Regime
A Cycle of Regimes
Notes
Bibliography
6 The Failed Regime of Pope Adrian VI
Prologue: November 1521–August 1522
Ritual Failure, August 1522–October 1522
Politics and Plague, November 1522–February 1523
Ritual Success, February 1523–April 1523
Epilogue, May 1523–September 1523
Notes
Bibliography
7 The Prince’s Body: Imagining Regime Change in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Florence
Notes
Bibliography
8 The Historiography of Regime Change in Machiavelli’s Discursus Rerum Florentinarum Post Mortem Iunioris Laurentii Medices
The Albizzi Regime
The Medici Regime
The Sources of Divergence
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
9 Alda Pio Gambara and Regime Change in Brescia During the Italian Wars
Introduction: Successful Regime Change (1509)
Mustering and Political Management
Writing, Plotting, and Military Management
Failed Regime Change (1512)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
10 Success in a Silent Regime Change: Electoral Politics, Family Strategies, and the Cappello Family in Early ...
Introduction
Family, Faction, and the Competition for Offices
Office, Money, and Prestige: the Procurators of San Marco
Embassies and Sociability With Other Italian Elites
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
11 In the Name of the Marquis, By the Hand of the Marchioness: Epistolary Networks and Languages of Resilience and …
The Sources and the Context
The Network
The Language
Notes
Bibliography
12 Trading and Investing During Regime Changes in Genoa
Introduction
Fiscal Reform and Changes of Regime
Case Studies I: Capital Investments and Regime Changes
Case Studies II: Merchants and Regime Changes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Unpublished Sources
Index
