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

... this is a first rate volume ... Throughout, the pieces are interesting and the volume is important, not simply for specialists on Italy but also for those interested in early modern European history ... The essays are state-of-the-art, and the book will be useful to scholars and students alike.