Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new
Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries managed to maintain a distinct social character while under Spanish rule. John A. Marino's study explores how the population of the city of Naples con
Dandelet (history, U. of California, Berkeley) and Marino (history, U. of California, San Diego) were two of the organizers of a 2003 conference held at the American Academy in Rome, from which the 19
