Early Modern Italy is a fascinating survey of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Covering the whole of the Peninsula from the Venetian Republic, to Florence, through to Naples it shows how the huge economic, cultural and social divides of the period still affect the stability of present day united Italy.
This is an essential guide to one of the most vibrant yet tempestuous periods of Italian history.

This volume is a survey of society in Italy from the 15th to the 18th centuries - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. During this period Italy was not a coherent political unit, being divided into many different kinds of states. Particularly apparent was the deep North-South divide economically, socially and linguistically. This book aims to develop an understanding of the diversity, conflicts and incompatibilities from the past that still affect the stability and fragility of united Italy in the 21st century. It covers the whole of the Italian peninsula from the Venetian Republic,...