TY - GEN AU - Eric Cochrane TI - Italy 1530-1630 SN - 9781317872085 PY - 2014///0623 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. But this picture is both incomplete and inaccurate, and in this important new survey Eric Cochrane has at last given the period its due ER -