
Between Italian and European Courts
Early Modern Ambassadors on the Move
Paola Volpini(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 16. April 2026
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-90-04-74056-3 (ISBN)
Description
Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the figure of the ambassador underwent profound changes. This volume investigates its various aspects, analysing the criteria for choosing the diplomat, the arrival and the long years spent at the host court, as well as the conditions of the return home. In the context of the significant growth of circulating information, the procedures for creating embassy archives are also considered. Attention is paid to the networks of relations, influenced by polycentrism in the decision-making processes, to the cultural implications, connected to the forms of diplomatic sociability, to the rapid and sometimes frenetic turnover of individuals entrusted with portions of diplomatic agency: secretaries, agents, men of letters, sometimes women.
By offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between diplomatic treatises, forms of the political and practical sources on the ambassador, this volume critically reflects on some pivotal themes in the history of European diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
By offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between diplomatic treatises, forms of the political and practical sources on the ambassador, this volume critically reflects on some pivotal themes in the history of European diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74056-3 (9789004740563)
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Paola Volpini, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Early Modern History and Political and Diplomatic History at the University of Parma, Italy. Her research interests cover sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history of political, diplomatic and cultural mediation. She has published many articles and monographs, including Los Medici y Espana. Principes, embajadores y agentes en la Edad moderna (Madrid, 2017) and Mobilita sociale e circolazione delle elites fra Italia e Stati dell'Europa (secoli XVI-XVIII) (Rome, 2021).