1st Edition

The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559

Edited By Alexander Lee, Brian Jeffrey Maxson Copyright 2023
284 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Regime Change in Sabaudian Lands, 1536-1580

Matthew Vester

2. Memories and Fantasies of Regime Change in Spanish Naples

Stephen Cummins

3. Chutes and Ladders: The Twilight of Two Lombard Families in the Italian Wars

John Gagné

4. Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa (1559-61)

Miles Pattenden

5. The Vacant See and Regime Change in Papal Rome, 1503-1559

John M. Hunt

6. The Failed Regime of Pope Adrian VI

Brian Jeffrey Maxson

7. The Prince’s Body: Imagining Regime Change in Mid Sixteenth-Century Florence

Nicholas Scott Baker

8. The Historiography of Regime Change in Machiavelli’s Discursus reum florentinarum post mortem iunioris Laurentii Medices

Alexander Lee

9. Alda Pio Gambara and Regime Change in Brescia during the Italian Wars

Stephen D. Bowd

10. Success in a Silent Regime Change: Electoral Politics, Family Strategies, and the Cappello Family in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice

Monique O’ Connell

11. In the Name of the Marquis, by the Hand of the Marchioness: Epistolary Networks and Languages of Resilience and Reaction in Mantua during the League of Cambrai (1509-1510)

Isabella Lazzarini

12. Trading and Investing during Regime Changes in Genoa

Carlo Taviani

Biography

Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of five acclaimed books, including Machiavelli: His Life and Times (2020) and Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy (2018).

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is professor of history at East Tennessee State University, USA. He has co-edited several projects and is the author of A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (2022) and The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2014).