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The agenti imperiali, the officials, ambassadors and military commanders representing the Emperor Charles V in Italy, made use of his status as Holy Roman Emperor and of the claims this gave him and them to intervene in Italian states over which he did not rule directly, to aid in establishing Spanish hegemony over Italy. The example of Lucca, a small state that asked for Charles's protection as an Imperial city, while resolutely maintaining its independence and trying to fend off demands from the emperor and the agenti imperiali for heavy financial contributions to the maintenance of the Imperial army in Italy, casts light on how this was done. It shows that even if Italian states such as Lucca might occasionally describe themselves as subjects of the Emperor, they were not prepared to be treated as though they were; it was the manner in which the demands were made, not just the amounts of money demanded, that aroused their resistance. The attitude Charles took to Lucca, his willingness to listen, eventually, to the protests of the Lucchese and to order his agenti in Italy not to oppress them or to make incessant demands on them, support the position of those who argue that he was

Author

Christine Shaw

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN