The Spanish presence in sixteenth-century Italy : images of Iberia / / edited by Piers Baker-Bates and Miles Pattenden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807113203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-4724-4151-6; 1-138-54815-4; 1-317-01501-0; 1-317-01500-2; 1-315-55256-6; 1-4724-4150-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Collana: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
• Altri autori (Persone): Baker-BatesPiers; PattendenMiles
• Disciplina: 704.9/49946
• Soggetti: Art, Italian - 16th century; Spain In art; Italy Civilization Spanish influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The Spanish Presence in Italian Politics, Society and Culture; 1 Mere Emulators of Italy: The Spanish in Italian Diplomatic Discourse, 1492-1550; 2 Hispanophobia in the Venetian Republic; 3 Encountering Spain in Early Modern Naples; Part II Spanish Religiosity and Roman Religion; 4 Rome as a 'Spanish Avignon'? The Spanish Faction and the Monarchy of Philip II; 5 Rome and the 'Spanish Theology'; 6 Spanish Saints in Counter-Reformation Italy; Part III Spanish Vision and the Visual Arts in Italy 7 'Graecia Capta Ferum Victorem Coepit': Spanish Patrons and Italian Artists; 8 The Stranded Tomb: Cultural Allusions in the Funeral Monument of Don Pedro de Toledo; 9 Inventive Translation, Portraiture and Spanish Habsburg Taste in the Sixteenth Century ; 10 The Politics of Art or the Art of Politics? ; Conclusion ; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays collected here evaluate the broad range of contexts in which Spaniards were present in early modern Italy. They consider diplomacy, sanctity, art, politics and even popular verse. Each essay excavates how Italians who came into contact with the Spanish crown's power perceived and interacted with the wider range of identities brought amongst them by its servants and subjects. Together they demonstrate what influenced and what determined Italians' responses to Spain; they show Spanish Italy in its full transcultural glory and how its inhabitants projected its culture - throughout the