Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
Edited by Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, and Luca Lo Basso
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of the transnational Iberian elite, to which he linked his fate and that of his children. His life's journey between Italy, Flanders and Spain, and the reinterpretations of his life by his contemporaries in art, literature and the press, give us the opportunity to reflect on the multiple identities and the physical and mental wanderings of many Europeans of the Early Modern Age. Ambrogio Spinola offers an example of humanity that is impossible to capture in a single reading and is much more contemporary than we can imagine.
Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain allows the reader to
better understand not only his military activities, but also (and above all)
the family, social and political foundations of his successful career, as well
as the various forms of art and communication (literature, architecture,
paintings, sculptures, engravings, newspapers, etc.), which were used to
celebrate him both during his life and beyond.
Contributors: Blythe Alice Raviola (University of Milan), Emiliano Beri (University of Genoa), Alicia Esteban Estríngana (University of Alcala), Dries Raeymaekers (Radboud University), Davide Maffi (University of Pavia), Nina Lamal (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Paul Arblaster (Saint-Louis University Brussels), Enrico Zucchi (University of Padua), Laura Stagno (University of Genoa)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 244 × 170 mm
400 pages
Illustrated b/w & f/c
ISBN: 9789462703421
Publication: October 03, 2022
Series: Avisos de Flandes 20
Languages: English: United States
Luca Lo Basso is professor of history at the Department of Political and International Sciences in the University of Genoa, and Director of the Laboratory of Maritime and Naval History in Genoa.
Silvia Mostaccio is professor of Early Modern History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters in UCLouvain.
Yasmina Ben Yessef Garfia, Universidad Federico II (Nápoles)