Download or read book Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introductory survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Italy. This text covers all aspects of life during this long, widely neglected period: the family, the Republics, the economy, the plague, philosophy and justice are among the topics which offer a vivid picture of the so-called forgotten centuries of Italian history. Compressed into a digestable format, Hanlon's study should provide students with a useful synthesis of this crucial era.