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This volume presents a compelling account of the prevalence of murder and violence during the Italian Renaissance. Contrary to the usual narratives of harmony and creation, Stephen Bowd outlines how massacres happened, how people justified and explained such events, and how they were culturally represented during the European renaissance.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Regimes and Regime Change in Italy, C.1494-c.1559 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Regime Change in the Sabaudian Lands, 1536-1580 -- The Strategic Political Context -- Types of Regime Change -- (a) Dynastic -- (b) Coerced -- (c) Negotiated -- (d) Hidden -- Experiencing Regime Change -- (a) Uncertainty -- (b) Symbolic Action -- (c) Division -- (d) Regional Variation -- The Structural Impact of Regime Change -- (a) Military-Territorial -- (b) Institutional -- (c) Political -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Memories and Fantasies of Regime Change in Spanish Naples -- Between History and Stereotype -- The Calabrian Conspiracy and Tommaso Campanella -- Conspiracy and Regime Change After 1647-1648 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Chutes and Ladders: The Twilight of Two Lombard Families in the Italian Wars -- Dal Verme Versus Sanseverino -- Serial Regimes and Radicalization -- Twists in the Italian Wars -- Olgisio and the Fate of Northern Italy -- Olgisio at Trial, 1567 -- Phenomenology of Regime Change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Regime Change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa (1559-1561) -- Regime Change in Papal Rome: Theory and Practice -- The Carafa and the Conditions for a Post-Facto "Coup" -- Executing the "Coup" -- After the Executions: Moral Hazard -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 The Vacant See and Regime Change in Papal Rome, 1503-1559 -- The Pope's Death as Regime Change -- Protesting the Old Regime -- A Cycle of Regimes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Failed Regime of Pope Adrian VI -- Prologue: November 1521-August 1522 -- Ritual Failure, August 1522-October 1522 -- Politics and Plague, November 1522-February 1523 -- Ritual Success, February 1523-April 1523.

"This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559. 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. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in cultural, military and political history"--

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