Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 by Professor Thomas James Dandelet

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Rome used to be an elderly yet nonetheless lively energy whereas Spain used to be a emerging immense on target towards changing into the world’s strongest and primary really international empire. This ebook tells the interesting tale of the assembly of those nice empires at a serious second in ecu background. Thomas Dandelet explores for the 1st time the shut courting among the Spanish Empire and Papal Rome that constructed within the dynamic interval of the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. the writer examines at the one hand the position the Spanish Empire performed in shaping Roman politics, economics, tradition, society, and faith and at the different the function the papacy performed in Spanish imperial politics and the improvement of Spanish absolutism and monarchical power.

Reconstructing the massive Spanish group in Rome in this interval, the ebook finds the suggestions utilized by the Spanish monarchs and their brokers that effectively introduced Rome and the papacy below their keep an eye on. Spanish ambassadors, courtiers, and retailers in Rome performed a sophisticated yet powerful conquest through a particular “informal” imperialism, which relied mostly on patronage politics. As Spain’s energy grew, Rome loved huge, immense earnings besides, and the shut kin they built grew to become a strong impression at the political, social, monetary, and non secular existence not just of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas but in addition of Catholic Reformation Europe as a whole.