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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 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.

Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pioneering work of Hans Baron (1966) and J. G. A. Pocock (1975), creating a fresh intellectual landscape in which Renaissance civic humanism can be discussed. Drawing on a wide range of political and historical texts, this book evaluates civic humanism in the light of the emergence of oligarchy, imperialism, patronage politics and the Medici ascendency in Florence in the 14th to 16th centuries. It proposes new understandings of the evolution of important republican concepts such as liberty, the rule of law, virtue, and the common good. This thought-provoking collection represents a significant contribution to the study of republican political ideology in the Renaissance and modern periods

This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.

Why, when so driven by the impetus for autonomy, did the city elites of thirteenth-century Italy turn to men bound to religious orders whose purpose and reach stretched far beyond the boundaries of their often disputed territories? Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450 brings together a team of international contributors to provide the first comparative response to this pivotal question. Presenting a series of urban cases and contexts, the book explores the secular-religious boundaries of the period and evaluates the role of the clergy in the administration and government of Italy's city-states. With an extensive introduction and epilogue, it exposes for consideration the beginnings of the phenomenon, the varying responses of churchmen, the reasons why practices changed and how politics and religious identity relate to each other. This important new study has significant implications for our understanding of power, negotiation, bureaucracy and religious identity

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 The Nexus between Socio-Economic and Political Change in Italy: Why Does Italy Matter? -- Why the Government and Politics of Italy Are Important -- Italy as a Case Study for Developing Countries and Democratization -- Italy's Vanguard Role in the Unification of Europe -- Italy's Alternative System of Power: The Non-Westminster Model -- 2 The Impact of Economic Challenges on Italy's Political System -- The Sovereign Debt Crisis and Its Impact on the Italian Government -- The Reform of the Pension System (Fornero Reform) -- The Reform of the Labour Market: The Renzi Jobs Act -- Italicum: Electoral Reform -- Partial Constitutional Reform: The Aborted Attempt to Abolish the Senate -- 3 Parliament: Democratization of Representative Institutions -- The Institutionalization of Parliament and the Parliamentarization of Parties -- The Changing Role of Parliament and the Role of the Charismatic Leader -- Parliamentary Elites: Who Gets Elected and Where? -- How Parliament Legislates: The Role of Standing Committees -- The Gatekeepers of Democracy: The Role of the Floor -- 4 The Executive Branch: Who Rules Italy? -- Italy's Dual Executive and the Presidentialization of the Political Process -- The Prime Minister and the Dynamics of Coalition Government -- The Prime Minister: Primus Inter Pares or Delegated Governance? -- Executive Decrees as a Substitute for Parliamentary Initiatives -- The Long Road to Implementation -- 5 The Judicial System: The Delivery of Justice under the Separation of Powers -- The Penal, Civil and Administrative Court Systems -- The Governance of the Judiciary -- The Judiciary's Response to Terrorism and Organized Crime -- The Struggle against Corruption: The Role of the Judiciary -- Reform of the Judiciary.

"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"--

A remarkable collection of debates on foreign policy from the works of Guicciardini, freshly translated with new commentary.This book brings together 11 pairs of opposing speeches on foreign policy written by Florentine statesman and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540). Collectively, they constitute a remarkable collection of debates on war, peace, alliance and more. Incisive and elegant, the debates contain an early formulation of concepts such as the balance of power and the security dilemma – ideas that are still in international politics today. This book highlights the importance of Guicciardini's work for the evolution of international theory and explains why he, alongside Machiavelli, should be considered a leading figure of Realism.