Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain

Interdisciplinary study of Spinola's turbulent lifeMany of the most significant studies devoted toAmbrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: hissuccessful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary andcultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understandingof Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight,entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier, and diplomat,Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member of the transnationalIberian elite, to which he linked his fate and that of his children. His life'sjourney between Italy, Flanders, and Spain, and the reinterpretations of hislife by his contemporaries in art, literature, and the press, give us theopportunity to reflect on the multiple identities and the physical and mental wanderingsof many Europeans of the Early Modern Age. Ambrogio Spinola offers an exampleof humanity that is impossible to capture in a single reading and is much morecontemporary than we can imagine.Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain allows the reader tobetter understand not only his military activities, but also (and above all)the family, social and political foundations of his successful career, as wellas the various forms of art and communication (literature, architecture,paintings, sculptures, engravings, newspapers, etc.), which were used tocelebrate him both during his life and beyond.Contributors: Blythe Alice Raviola (University of Milan), Emiliano Beri(University of Genoa), Alicia Esteban Estringana (University of Alcala), DriesRaeymaekers (Radboud University), Davide Maffi (University of Pavia), NinaLamal (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Paul Arblaster(Saint-Louis University Brussels), Enrico Zucchi (University of Padua), LauraStagno (University of Genoa)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).