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Early Modern Italy by Christopher F. Black
ISBN: 0203170156
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy. This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.
On Wolves and Sheep by Aaron M. Kahn
ISBN: 9781443834179
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
With the rise of nationalism and with it he nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries so arose new polemical issues. As the Spanish Empire expanded in the sixteenth century, theologians, jurists, artists and politicians commented on the morality and legitimacy of the imperial enterprise. With the increase in power of successive Spanish sovereigns from the Catholic Monarchs to Philip II (1556-98), followed by the decadence of the state through the reign of Charles II (1665-1700), p...

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