Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer: Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond

Jessica O'Leary

doi:10.1017/9789048558889

Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer

Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond

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Jessica O'Leary, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9789048558889
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048558889

Series:: Renaissance History, Art and Culture
Subjects:: British History: General Interest, History

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Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga came of age during a time of intense change in sixteenth-century Italy: the Italian Wars (1494-1559). The first and third-born sons of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga spent their formative years at the courts of Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain, where, as effectively diplomatic hostages, they learned valuable lessons about the transnational social codes and rituals central to sixteenth-century political life. As adults, they applied these lessons in their political and martial collaborations with Charles V: supporting his dominions in Italy, facilitating his attempted colonisation of northern Africa, and praising his attacks on Muslim pirates in the Italian Mediterranean. This book uses epistolary, literary, and material sources to argue that the boyhood and adult experiences of Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga are illustrative of wider strategies adopted by elite Italians to respond to conflict and crisis in a global age.

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Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer

Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-8

Abbreviations
pp 9-10

Maps and Figures
pp 11-14

Introduction
pp 15-32

1 - Crisis Diplomacies in the Italian Wars
pp 33-64

2 - Warring Masculinities
pp 65-96

3 - Imperial Masculinities
pp 97-126

4 - Diplomacy of Magnificence
pp 127-160

5 - Imperial Networks and Loyalties
pp 161-188

6 - Interpretations of Renaissance Masculinities
pp 189-214

Conclusion
pp 215-218

Bibliography
pp 219-238

Index
pp 239-246

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