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As Spain declined in the 16th century, so did its Italian possessions in Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, and Milan. Southern Italy was impoverished, stagnant, and cut off from the mainstream of events in Europe. Naples was one of the continent's most overcrowded and unsanitary cities, with a crime-ridden and volatile populace. [16]
The 17th century was a tumultuous period in Italian history, marked by deep political and social changes. These included the increase of Papal power in the peninsula and the influence of the Catholic Church at the peak of the Counter Reformation, the Catholic reaction against the Protestant Reformation.
The Seicento (/ s eɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ n t oʊ /, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˌsɛiˈtʃɛnto]) is Italian history and culture during the 17th century.The Seicento saw the end of the Renaissance movement in Italy and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque era.
This is a timeline of Italian history, ... 17th century. Year Date Event 1633: The Palio di Siena is held for the first time. 1678: 4 March:
The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, was part of the second plague pandemic that began with the Black Death in 1348 and ended in the 18th century. One of two major outbreaks in Italy during the 17th century, it affected northern and central Italy and resulted in at least 280,000 deaths, with some ...
There were also families which had been part of Italian nobility for many decades or even centuries. Writing in the 19th century, Leopold von Ranke recorded: In the middle of the 17th century there were computed to be fifty noble families in Rome of three hundred years' standing, thirty-five of two hundred, and sixteen of one hundred years.
The history of Naples is ... the earliest Greek city on mainland Italy, at the end of the 8th century BC ... In the 16th and 17th century Naples was home to great ...
17th-century military history of Italy (2 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "17th century in Italy" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.