Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy

by Michael J. Levin

Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica." In this book, based on extensive research in the papers of the ambassadors who represented Charles V and Philip II, Michael J. Levin instead reveals the true fragility of Spanish control and the ambiguous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443520
• ISBN13: 9780801443527
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher