Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
Subtitle: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 14501800 (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Contributors: Daniela Frigo (Editor); Adrian Belton (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521561891
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Italy; Foreign Relations; 1559-1789; History; Philosophy; International Relations - General; History: World; Europe; General; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Italy--Foreign relations--1268-1492--Case studies; 1492-1559; 1268-1492; Case studies
First sentence: This essay returns to and adapts a previous contribution of mine which provided the basis for several subsequent studies on the evolution of diplomacy in Italy (and particularly in Florence), on the advent of the regional state or - which is the same thing - of the oligarchical regimes.