The Refugee-Diplomat
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York CityVenice, England, and the Reformation A lecture by Diego Pirillo, University of California, Berkeley The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. This talk proposes an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the…