Italy in the 17th Century Book

	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Map: The Italian states in the seventeenth century
Ch. 1	The system of Italian states	1
	The end of Pax Hispanica	3
	Italy and the Thirty Years War	5
	The Papacy and Italian politics	9
	Venice and the Turks	11
	Italy and the Sun King	13
	Institutional stability	14
Ch. 2	The economy	19
	Agriculture: setbacks and recovery	23
	Industrial and commercial decline	29
	Causes and scapegoats	32
	Industrial survival and growth	41
	A changed economy	46
Ch. 3	Society	50
	The aristocracy	52
	Refeudalization?	63
	The middling order	69
	The plebs	75
	Welfare	82
	Revolts	90
Ch. 4	Religion	101
	Reforming the clergy	106
	Christianization	122
	The response of the laity	137
	Coercion and repression	144
Ch. 5	Church and state	161
	In the Savoyard state	166
	In the Spanish dominions	168
	In the Venetian Republic	176
Ch. 6	Culture	188
	The arts	189
	Poetry and the theatre	192
	Music	195
	Historiography	197
	Travel literature	200
	Books of advice	201
	Political theory	203
	Philosophers and libertines	206
Ch. 7	Science	213
	Galileo's science	214
	The trial	229
	Galileo's legacy	233
Appendix	Tables of succession	239
	Index	241