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

<p>This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559.</p><p>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 were more violent. But whenever a new reggimento took power, old social tensions were laid bare and new challenges emerged – any of which could easily threaten its survival. This provoked a variety of responses, both from newly established regimes and from their opponents. Constitutional reforms were proposed and enacted; civic rituals were developed; works of art were commissioned; literary works were penned; and occasionally, aspects of material culture were pressed into service, as well. Comparative in approach and broad in scope, it offers a provocative new view of the diverse political, culture, and economic factors, which ensured the survival (or demise) of regimes – not only in "major" polities like Florence, Rome, and Venice, but also in less-well-studied regions like Savoy.</p><p>This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, political, and military history.</p> <p>1. Regime Change in Sabaudian Lands, 1536-1580</p><p>Matthew Vester</p><p>2. Memories and Fantasies of Regime Change in Spanish Naples </p><p>Stephen Cummins</p><p>3. Chutes and Ladders: The Twilight of Two Lombard Families in the Italian Wars</p><p>John Gagné</p><p>4. Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa (1559-61)</p><p>Miles Pattenden</p><p>5. The Vacant See and Regime Change in Papal Rome, 1503-1559</p><p>John M. Hunt</p><p>6. The Failed Regime of Pope Adrian VI</p><p>Brian Jeffrey Maxson</p><p>7. The Prince’s Body: Imagining Regime Change in Mid Sixteenth-Century Florence</p><p>Nicholas Scott Baker</p><p>8. The Historiography of Regime Change in Machiavelli’s Discursus reum florentinarum post mortem iunioris Laurentii Medices</p><p>Alexander Lee</p><p>9. Alda Pio Gambara and Regime Change in Brescia during the Italian Wars</p><p>Stephen D. Bowd</p><p>10. Success in a Silent Regime Change: Electoral Politics, Family Strategies, and the Cappello Family in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice</p><p>Monique O’ Connell</p><p>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)</p><p>Isabella Lazzarini</p><p>12. Trading and Investing during Regime Changes in Genoa</p><p>Carlo Taviani</p>