 | Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy Subjects: Spain -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Venice; Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Spain; Spain -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Papal Stales; Papal States -- Foreign relations -- Spain; Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century; Ambass; Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica."... Michael J. Levin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron. |
