Early Modern Italy 1550-1796

by Marino, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780198700425
• ISBN10: 0198700423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray the complex history of the earlymodern Italian states on their own terms. A leading team of historians traces Italian material and cultural bonds of identity and solidarity beyond their common political narrative - from the Reformation through the hopes and frustrations of reform, renewal and restructuring of social and economicpower to the eventual collapse of the Old Regime.

Author Biography

John Marino is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Nales and Good Government in Spanish Naples. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, a Fondazione Fellowship, an Exxon Fellowship, and a Newberry Library-NEH Fellowship, and is past president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	v
List of contributors	xi
Introduction: on the Grand Tour	1	(10)
John A. Marino
PART I THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: LATE RENAISSANCE RESOLUTIONS
Politics and the state system after the Habsburg-Valois Wars	11	(19)
Thomas J. Dandelet
Diplomacy, war, and the Holy League of 1571	15	(5)
The bureaucratic state and patronage politics	20	(3)
Disturbing the peace: the French revival	23	(7)
Religion, renewal, and reform in the sixteenth century	30	(21)
John Jeffries Martin
Varieties of religious experience	30	(2)
The political and cultural contexts of reform	32	(5)
Tradition and change in Italian piety	37	(4)
Doctrinal and institutional reform	41	(4)
After Trent: renegotiating religious beliefs and practices	45	(6)
PART II MATERIAL LIFE: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL TRAJECTORIES
Economic structures and transformations	51	(18)
John A. Marino
Asia and America remake Europe	51	(3)
The structural limits of the pre-industrial economy	54	(8)
Conjunctures: the shift from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic	62	(7)
Family and gender	69	(18)
Gianna Pomata
Two faces of the family: casato and parentado	71	(4)
1560--1700: triumph of the patriliny	75	(3)
Daughters and cadets: the price of patriliny for women and men	78	(3)
1700--96 and beyond: crisis of the patriliny	81	(6)
The social world: cohesion, conflict, and the city	87	(17)
R. Burr Litchfield
The social hierarchy: feudal nobles	88	(2)
Urban patricians	90	(2)
Cittadinanza and grosso popolo: professions, traders, and guildsmen	92	(1)
Artisans and the working class	93	(3)
The religious hierarchy	96	(2)
Public life: ceremonies and crises	98	(3)
Emergence of a modern public sphere	101	(3)
The political world of the absolutist state in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	104	(21)
Geoffrey Symcox
Widening war, 1613--27	105	(2)
From the Mantuan succession to the War of Candia, 1627--69	107	(2)
Revolts in Naples and Sicily	109	(2)
Aristocracies and the state	111	(3)
The Italian Wars, 1690--1713	114	(2)
Great Power rivalries, 1713--48	116	(3)
Enlightenment and reform	119	(6)
PART III IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES: COMPETING LANGUAGES, CONVERGING VISIONS
Religion, spirituality, and the post-Tridentine Church	125	(18)
Anne Jacobson Schutte
Conceptual frameworks	125	(2)
The Roman Inquisition and the Index of Prohibited Books: repression and resistance	127	(4)
The shape of sanctity: contours of holiness	131	(4)
Pastors and sheep	135	(4)
`The kittens have opened their eyes': conformity, protest, and reform	139	(4)
Mare magnum: the arts in the early modern age	143	(23)
Jon R. Snyder
Introduction	143	(2)
Art and architecture	145	(7)
Music	152	(5)
Literature	157	(9)
Science and society	166	(22)
Paula Findlen
The renaissance of science	166	(5)
Philosophical liberties	171	(6)
The legacy of Galileo	177	(5)
Academies and experimenters	182	(6)
The ethnography of everyday life	188	(21)
David Gentilcore
Orality and literacy in a composite society	190	(2)
Ritual behaviour	192	(2)
Community: place or process?	194	(2)
Identity, or `steering by two rudders'	196	(3)
Consumption	199	(3)
The body: parts, processes, products	202	(7)
PART IV THE CHALLENGE AND CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME
The public sphere and the organization of knowledge	209	(20)
Brendan Dooley
Introduction: the marketplace of ideas	209	(2)
Print culture	211	(5)
The university milieu	216	(2)
The urban academies	218	(6)
The salon	224	(2)
Cafe society	226	(1)
Conclusion: the court of public opinion	227	(2)
Enlightenment and reform	229	(24)
Anna Maria Rao
Introduction: the relationship between Enlightenment and reform	229	(3)
The Wars of Succession	232	(3)
The 1760s: famine and the `patriotic turn'	235	(8)
The triumph and the crisis of reform	243	(7)
Conclusion: Enlightenment and revolution	250	(3)
Conclusion	253	(4)
John A. Marino
Further reading	257	(24)
Chronology	281	(5)
Maps:	286	(3)
Italy in 1559	286	(1)
Italy in 1748	287	(2)
Index	289