Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders on the Grand Tour, John A. Marino 1. I The Institutional Framework: Late Renaissance ResolutionsPolitics and the State System after the Habsburg-Valois Wars, Thomas J. Dandelet 2. Religion, Renewal, and Reform of the Old Church, John Jeffries Martin 3. II Material Life: Economic, Social, and Political, and Economic TrajectoriesEconomic Structures and Transformations, John A. Marino 4. Family and Gender, Gianna Pomata 5. The Social World: Cohesion, Conflict, and the City, R. Burr Litchfield 6. The Political World of the Absolutist State in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Geoffrey Symcox 7. III Ideologies and Practices: Competing Languages, Converging VisionsReligion, Spirituality, and the Post-Tridentine Church, Anne Jacobson Schutte 8. Mare Magnum: the Arts in the Early Modern Age, Jon R Snyder 9. Science and Society, Paula Findlen 10. The Ethnography of Everyday Life, David Gentilcore 11. IV The Challenge and Crisis of the Old RegimeThe Public Sphere and the Organization of Knowledge, Brendan Dooley 12. Enlightenment and Reform, Anna Maria Rao Conclusion, John A. Marino Further Reading Chronology Maps

`For this reviewer the balance is right and the coverage impressive. Overall this is an impressive, succinctly written synthesis of recent scholarship on - and introduction to - the rich mosaic that was early modern Italy' Christooher Storrs, University of Dundee, History Vol.88, Issue 4, No. 292