Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain / edited by Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, and Luca Lo Basso.

Contributor Mostaccio, Silvia, editor.

ImprintLeuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2022]

Description384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Note:Ambrogio Spinola: The Threads of a Multiple Past / Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, Luca Lo Basso -- Part I. Ambrogio and the Spinola of San Luca:Gender and Family Strategies -- Around Ambrogio: The Family Network in Genoa, Milan, and Spain, and Giovanni Botero's Eulogy / Blythe Alice Raviola -- Federico and Ambrogio Spinola between Mediterranean Corsairs, War in Flanders, and the Invasion of England / Emiliano Beri -- "Ingrandire la famiglia": Ambrogio Spinola on Honour, War, and Money in his Flanders Correspondence with the Women of his Family / Silvia Mostaccio -- Part II. Networks: War, Finance, Politics, and Diplomacy -- A Joab for King David: Ambrogio Spinola, General of Archduke Albert, and the Davidic Imaginary in the Time of Philip III (1598-1605) / Alicia Esteban Estríngana -- "The Great Alcandre": Ambrogio Spinola at Court / Dries Raeymaekers -- The Last Venture: Ambrogio Spinola as Governor of Milan (1629-30) / Davide Maffi -- To Lose One's Honour: Ambrogio Spinola's Return to Italy, the Casale Affair, and the End of "Pax Hispanica" (1627-30) / Luca Lo Basso -- Part III. Memory Construction and Appropriation of Ambrogio Spinola's Images -- Spinola's Fame in the News Press / Nina Lamal, Paul Arblaster -- Contesting the Spanish Myth: Republican Shaping of Ambrogio Spinola's Image in Genoese Literature (1608-52) / Enrico Zucchi -- Ambrogio Spinola in Genoese Art / Laura Stagno -- "Tempore et Loco": Heroic Rhetoric of Spinola's Fortune, from Military Entrepreneur to Spanish Grandee / Bernardo J. García García.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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