Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire

Rebecca Ard Boone teaches courses on the Renaissance and Reformation, the Old Regime, early modern Europe, the French Revolution, and the Age of Columbus, among others at Rutgers University. An intellectual and cultural historian, her research focus is Renaissance Europe. Her work on sixteenth-century French political theorist Claude de Seyssel has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas and appeared as War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France (Brill, 2007).

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Biography; Chapter 2 Preparing the way of the lord; Chapter 3 Gattinara and america; Chapter 4 Enemies of the Faith; Chapter 5 Gattinara, guicciardini and the treaty of madrid; conclusion Conclusion;