Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy

Elissa B Weaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This study shows how theater was an important feature of convent life from the early fifteenth century, probably in all of Catholic Europe and its col... Lees meer

Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This is the first multi-disciplinary study of the dissemination of Italian culture in northern Europe during the "long eighteenth century" (1689-1815)... Lees meer

The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy

Christine Shaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Political exiles were a prominent feature of political life during the Renaissance, often a source of intense concern to the states from which they we... Lees meer

Naples in the Eighteenth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This volume of essays offers a series of new insights into the "age of the Enlightenment," not only in Italy but throughout Europe. In its political r... Lees meer

The Italian Garden

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Italian Renaissance gardens were the admiration of Europe and North America. They revived the classical art of garden making, as well as drawing on me... Lees meer

Numbers and Nationhood

Silvana Patriarca

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Numbers and Nationhood explores the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in Italian society during the nineteenth century. Silvana Patriarca... Lees meer

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy

Anthony L Cardoza, Cardoza Anthony L

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book provides the first full account of the Italian Sobility in the post-unification era, and challenges recent interpretations that have stresse... Lees meer

Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century

Albert Schram

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book relates the history of Italian railways and their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, unt... Lees meer

The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy

Christine Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Political exiles were a prominent feature of political life during the Renaissance, often a source of intense concern to the states from which they we... Lees meer

Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580 1650

Joanne M Ferraro, Ferraro Joanne M

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families of Brescia, a rich and strategically vital city under Venetian rule, during the late sixteent... Lees meer

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Nicholas Terpstra

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confrater... Lees meer

Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento

Steven C Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book provides a meticulous examination of the ideology, structure, and functions of the papal police as they operated in the city and province of... Lees meer

War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690 1720

Christopher Storrs

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe. Through his participation in the Nine Years War ... Lees meer

Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy

Toby Osborne

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• History has been unkind to the House of Savoy during the Thirty Years' War, viewing it as a powerless puppet of Richelieu and Olivares. By contrast, t... Lees meer

Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy

Simon Ditchfield

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book offers a fresh, original and interdisciplinary interpretation of what the Catholic Reformation meant at local diocesan level in the face of ... Lees meer

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Nicholas Terpstra

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confrater... Lees meer

Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy

Toby Osborne

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• History has been unkind to the House of Savoy during the Thirty Years' War, viewing it as a powerless puppet of Richelieu and Olivares. By contrast, t... Lees meer

War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690 1720

Christopher Storrs

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe. Through his participation in the Nine Years War ... Lees meer

Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492 1700

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This study describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in European politics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It att... Lees meer

Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy

K J P Lowe

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book examines the life of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524) from a variety of perspectives and using a range of techniques. It analyses the... Lees meer

Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492 1700

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This study describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in European politics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It att... Lees meer

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy

Anthony L Cardoza, Cardoza Anthony L

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book provides the first full account of the Italian Sobility in the post-unification era, and challenges recent interpretations that have stresse... Lees meer

Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• This book covers one of the most controversial subjects in Italian historiography, namely the success or failure of the Church's policy during the cou... Lees meer

Herculean Ferrara

Thomas Tuohy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• The court of Ercole d'Este was one of the most glittering in Renaissance Italy. The duke was a prolific builder, and the leader in the revival of clas... Lees meer