The essays collected here evaluate the broad range of contexts in which Spaniards were present in early modern Italy. In the end Italians’ views sometimes even shaped how their Spanish colonizers eventually came to see themselves. Italians, the nominally subaltern group, did not readily accept Spanish dominance and exercised considerable agency over how imperial Spanish identity developed within their borders. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder and whose aspirations often even grander than their own. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown.
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