Early Modern Italy

John Marino is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Nales and Good Government in Spanish Naples. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, a Fondazione Fellowship, an Exxon Fellowship, and a Newberry Library-NEH Fellowship, and is past president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.

• Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour ; 1. POLITICS AND THE STATE SYSTEM AFTER THE HABSBURG-VALOIS WARS ; 2. Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church ; 3. ECONOMIC STRUCTURES AND TRANSFORMATIONS ; 4. Family and Gender ; 5. The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City ; 6. The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; 7. RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE POST-TRIDENTINE CHURCH ; 8. Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age ; 9. Science and Society ; 10. The Ethnography of Everyday Life ; 11. THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE ; 12. Enlightenment and Reform ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Maps

Rao's closing chapter on the interconnection of politics and reform in the eighteenth century is outstanding. The ideology of the Enlightenment and its relationship with political realities are handled with particular clarity and insight throughout this book, which will serve as a valuable first introduction to early modern Italian history.