{"product_id":"ambrogio-spinola-between-genoa-flanders-and-spain-9789462703421","title":"Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterdisciplinary study\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e of Spinola’s turbulent life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume will \u003cbr\u003eundoubtedly be an obligatory reference for anyone who wants to study Spinola in \u003cbr\u003edepth or wants to understand the mechanisms that operated in the service to the \u003cbr\u003eHispanic monarchy and in the cursus honorum of some of the most prestigious \u003cbr\u003eGenoese houses of the Republic. The enormous collection of sources on which the \u003cbr\u003evarious chapters are based, including manuscripts, printed texts, architectural \u003cbr\u003etestimonies and artistic objects, among others, from Spanish, Flemish, Dutch \u003cbr\u003eand Italian libraries, collections and archives, allow us to delineate points \u003cbr\u003eof view on the life of Spinola which, until now, had remained obscured.\u003c\/em\u003eYasmina \u003cbr\u003eBen Yessef Garfia, University Federico II (Naples)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ambrogio Spinola: The Threads of a Multiple Past \u003ci\u003eSilvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, Luca Lo Basso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmbrogio and the Spinola of San Luca: Gender and Family Strategies \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround Ambrogio: The Family Network in Genoa, Milan, and Spain, and Giovanni Botero’s Eulogy \u003ci\u003eBlythe Alice Raviola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFederico and Ambrogio Spinola between Mediterranean Corsairs, War in Flanders, and the Invasion of England \u003ci\u003eEmiliano Beri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ingrandire la famiglia”: Ambrogio Spinola on Honour, War, and Money in his Flanders Correspondence with the Women of his Family \u003ci\u003eSilvia Mostaccio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNetworks: War, Finance, Politics, and Diplomacy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Joab for King David: Ambrogio Spinola, General of Archduke Albert, and the Davidic Imaginary in the Time of Philip III (1598–1605) 97 \u003ci\u003eAlicia Esteban Estríngana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Great Alcandre”: Ambrogio Spinola at Court \u003ci\u003eDries Raeymaekers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Venture: Ambrogio Spinola as Governor of Milan (1629–30) \u003ci\u003eDavide Maffi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Lose One’s Honour: Ambrogio Spinola’s Return to Italy, the Casale Affair, and the End of “Pax Hispanica” (1627–30) \u003ci\u003eLuca Lo Basso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemory Construction and Appropriation of Ambrogio Spinola’s Images \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpinola’s Fame in the News Press \u003ci\u003eNina Lamal, Paul Arblaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContesting the Spanish Myth: Republican Shaping of Ambrogio Spinola’s Image in Genoese Literature (1608–52) \u003ci\u003eEnrico Zucchi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmbrogio Spinola in Genoese Art \u003ci\u003eLaura Stagno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tempore et Loco”: Heroic Rhetoric of Spinola’s Fortune, from Military Entrepreneur to Spanish Grandee \u003ci\u003eBernardo J. 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