The sixteenth century marked a critical period both for the formation of Spain as a cultural and political entity and for a new imperial dominance of the Spanish crown over other areas of Europe, in particular the states of the Italian peninsula. The uniqueness of the case of Spanish Italy lies as one of a handful of historical examples in which the apparent cultural dominance of the nominally subaltern group who, held a disproportionately important agency over both the development of the imperial culture and also how its colonizers came to see themselves. The essays collected here evaluate the broad range of contexts--from political thought and militarism to art and religion--in which images of Spain and Spanish culture were created by the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula in the century or so after 1492. They draw their inspiration from colonial and subaltern studies, reflecting the field's emphasis on the contribution made by colonized groups to how colonizing powers were themselves imagined. The volume excavates how those who came into contact with the imperial power of the Spanish crown in Italy during this period perceived and discussed the wider Iberian culture brought amongst them by its servants and subjects. In particular, it demonstrates the factors and circumstances that determined Italians' responses to the Spanish presence, their intentions for the images they created, and the forums in and media through which they articulated and projected them.
Contents: Introduction, Simon Ditchfield. Part I The Spanish Presence in Italian Politics, Society and Culture: Mere emulators of Italy: the Spanish in Italian diplomatic discourse, 1492-1550, Catherine Fletcher; 'The most odious that can be pronounced': Hispanophobia in the Venetian Republic, Nicholas Davidson; 'Encountering Spain in early modern Naples: language, customs and sociability, Stephen Cummins. Part II Spanish Religiosity and Roman Religion: Rome as a 'Spanish Avignon'? The Spanish faction and the monarchy of Philip II, Miles Pattenden; Rome and the 'Spanish theology': Spanish monarchy, doctrinal controversies and the defence of papal prerogatives from Clement VIII to Urban VIII, Paolo Broggio; Spanish saints in Counter-Reformation Italy, Clare Copeland. Part III Spanish Vision and the Visual Arts in Italy: 'Gracia capta ferum victorem coepit': Spanish patrons and Italian artists, Piers Baker-Bates; The stranded tomb: cultural allusions in the funeral monument of Don Pedro de Toledo, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Naples, Robert W. Gaston and Andrea M. Galdy; Inventive translation, portraiture and Spanish Habsburg taste in the 16th century, Elena Calvillo; The politics of art or the art of politics? The Marquis del Carpio in Rome and Naples (1677-87), Jorge Fernandez-Santos Ortiz-Iribas. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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