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Title

Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid : the court of Philip IV through foreign eyes / edited by Jorge Fernández-Santos and José Luis Colomer ; prologue by John H. Elliott ; epilogue by Miguel-Ángel Ochoa Brun.

Publication

• Madrid : Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Colomer, José Luis
• Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, Jorge
• Elliott, J. H. (John Huxtable)
• Ochoa Brun, Miguel Angel

Description

604 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

This book sets out to describe the experiences of foreign ambassadors dispatched to Spain during the long reign of Philip IV (1621?65). Through a selection of diplomats of various nationalities?from the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy See, France, England, Venice, Tuscany, Genoa, the small Italian states, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and the Ottoman Empire?it paints a broad picture of political missions to the ?Planet King? and of personal agendas in Golden-Age Madrid. With their different perceptions of the Habsburg court and life in a city that was entirely transformed into the capital of a worldwide monarchy in the decades of the mid-seventeenth century, these men bear fascinating witness to the interactions between a dominant state at pains to preserve its hegemonic role and a variety of powers ranging from close allies to sworn enemies on the international stage.0The operations of the administrative and political system with which new ambassadors were confronted on reaching Madrid are scrutinised here by a distinguished group of academics, museum curators and independent researchers who provide complementary approaches to diplomatic history. Twenty-one specialists from eight different countries contribute texts devoted to thirteen ambassadors and highlight specific assignments in the foreign service, showing how much these agents relied on their own backgrounds and interests when assessing Spaniards and Spain. Mostly based on unpublished sources and lavishly illustrated with more than 280 images, this anthology of essays sheds light on Madrid as a centre of international diplomacy and offers a new perspective on the king who was deemed by Europeans to be the most powerful monarch in the world.

Subject

• Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665
• 1600-1699
• Diplomats > Spain > History > 17th century
• Diplomatic relations
• Diplomats
• Spain > Foreign relations > 17th century
• Spain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: Nationalism and transnationalism in the court of Spain / John H. Elliott -- The Madrid of the ambassadors under Philip IV / Jorge Fernández-Santos -- The persuasive diplomacy of gifts / José Luis Colomer -- From Venice to Madrid, and back again: the Venetian ambassador Giacomo Querini / Gino Benzoni -- In the service of the August House: the embassy of the Marquess of Grana, Imperial representative during the Dynastic Crisis (1641-51) / Luis Tercero Casado -- Diplomatic stagecraft at the court of Spain: the 1659 reception for Louis XIV's ambassador Antoine Gramont / Bertrand Haan -- Fathoming Spanish arcana: the Polish ambassador Stanislaw Makowski's impossible mission to the court of Philip IV (1638-47) / Jan Kieniewicz and Matylda Urjasz-Raczko -- "Questo non basta a contentar una donna spagnola": Camillo Massimo as Papal Nuncio in Madrid and his later ties to Spain (1655-62) / Lisa Beaven a nd José Luis Colomer -- -Cross-confessional and diplomatic incidents: Dutch ambassadors in Madrid (1648-72) / Maurits Ebben -- Sir Richard Fanshawe: the Restoration tragedy of a Cavalier aesthete / Piers Baker-Bates and Alistair Malcolm -- Fashioning Sir Arthur Hopton / Todd Longstaff-Gowan -- The cultivated negotiator: Cornelius Lerche's missions in Madrid (1630-55, 1658-62) / Enrique Corredera Nilsson -- Reporting back to the "Phoenix of so many Centuries": Mathias Palbitzki, Queen Christina's envoy to Spain (1651-52) / Hans Helander and Martin Olin -- "The wealthiest and most learned gentleman of that republic": the embassy of Anton Giulio Brignole-Sale in Madrid (1644-46) / Piero Baccardo -- On the translatability of scientific discoveries: Galileo, Medicean diplomacy and the Spanish court (1612-32) / Paola Volpini -- The unexpected Ottoman guest: Ahmed Agha in Madrid (1649-50) / Jorge Fernández-Santos and Hüseyin Serdar Tabakoǧlu -- Harbinger of a prospective alliance with ducal Modena: the diplomat and poet Fulvio Testi's missions to Madrid (1636, 1638) / Mercedes Simal-López -- Epilogue: PHilip IV's ambassadors / Miguel-Ángel Ochoa Brun -- General appendix: Foreign diplomatic representatives sent to Philip IV.

Call Number

JX 21-100983

ISBN

• 9788415245940
• 8415245947

LCCN

2020457899

OCLC

1198094782

Title

Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid : the court of Philip IV through foreign eyes / edited by Jorge Fernández-Santos and José Luis Colomer ; prologue by John H. Elliott ; epilogue by Miguel-Ángel Ochoa Brun.

Publisher

Madrid : Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

1600-1699

Added Author

Colomer, José Luis, edifor.

Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, Jorge, editor.

Elliott, J. H. (John Huxtable), writer of preface.

Ochoa Brun, Miguel Angel, writer of postface.

Research Call Number

JX 21-100983