Table of Contents

Introduction: new perspectives on the diplomacy of Italian states in the early modern period Daniela Frigo; 1. Diplomacy and government in the Italian city-states of the fifteenth century: Florence and Venice Riccardo Fubini; 2. Aspects of Medicean diplomacy in the sixteenth century Alessandra Contini; 3. An outline of Vatican diplomacy in the early modern period Luca Riccardi; 4. Economic and social aspects of the crisis of Venetian diplomacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Andrea Zannini; 5. 'Small states' and diplomacy: Mantua and Modena Daniela Frigo; 6. Neapolitan diplomacy in the eighteenth century: policy and the diplomatic apparatus Maria Grazia Maiorini; 7. Savoyard diplomacy in the eighteenth century (1684–1798) Christopher Storrs.