1st Edition

The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy Images of Iberia

Edited By Piers Baker-Bates, Miles Pattenden Copyright 2015
296 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder and whose aspirations often even grander than their own. Italians, the nominally subaltern group,... Read more

Introduction
Simon Ditchfield
PART I THE SPANISH PRESENCE IN ITALIAN POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
1 Mere Emulators of Italy: The Spanish in Italian Diplomatic Discourse, 1492–1550
Catherine Fletcher
2 Hispanophobia in the Venetian Republic
Nicholas Davidson
3 Encountering Spain in Early Modern Naples: Language, Customs and Sociability
Stephen Cummins
PART II SPANISH RELIGIOSITY AND ROMAN RELIGION
4 Rome as a ‘Spanish Avignon’? The Spanish Faction and the Monarchy of Philip II
Miles Pattenden
5 Rome and the ‘Spanish Theology’: Spanish Monarchy, Doctrinal Controversies and the Defence of Papal Prerogatives from Clement VIII to Urban VIII
Paolo Broggio
6 Spanish Saints in Counter-Reformation Italy
Clare Copeland
PART III SPANISH VISION AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ITALY
7 ‘Graecia Capta Ferum Victorem Coepit’: Spanish Patrons and Italian Artists
Piers Baker-Bates
8 The Stranded Tomb: Cultural Allusions in the Funeral Monument of Don Pedro de Toledo, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Naples
Robert W. Gaston and Andrea M. Gáldy
9 Inventive Translation, Portraiture and Spanish Habsburg Taste in the Sixteenth Century
Elena Calvillo
10 The Politics of Art or the Art of Politics? The Marquis del Carpio in Rome and Naples (1677–1687)
Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas

Conclusion

Biography

Piers Baker-Bates is a Research Associate in Art History at the Open University, UK.

Miles Pattenden is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, UK.