Lepanto and Beyond

Laura Stagno is associate professor of early modern art history at the University of Genoa and Scientific Director of the Museum of Palazzo del Principe in Genoa. Borja Franco Llopis is associate professor of early modern art history at the UNED (Madrid), and principal investigator of the International Research Group “Before Orientalism: Images of the Muslim Other in Iberia”.

For those who are interested in seeing how the study of alterity can expose the lines of connection between art, politics, and religion, the entries in Lepanto and Beyond have much to commend them. In addition to the eleven essays, the volume includes twenty-nine color images of paintings and drawings depicting either the battle itself or individuals associated with it, such as Doria and Philip II. The image gallery alone makes this volume of value to historians of the 16th century, most especially to those specializing in art and in the print and media landscape of the period. Brent Gordon, SJ, Reading Religion, March 2023, https://readingreligion.org/9789462702646/

• Preface PART I. OTHERNESS AND CONFRONTATION IN EARLY MODERN SOUTHERN EUROPE 1. A Brief Review of the Scholarly Literature on Representation of the “Turk” and images of Lepanto in Italy and Iberia Laura Stagno and Borja Franco Llopis 2. Multiple Alterities in the Ottoman Empire Steven Hutchinson PART 2. LEPANTO: THE BATTLE, ITS NARRATIVES, ITS ICONOGRAPHIES 3. Event and Narration. Spanish Storytelling on the Battle of Lepanto in the Early 1570s Stefan Hanß 4. A Sea of Dead Turks: Lepanto and the Iconographies of Hell and the Flood Víctor Mínguez 5. Lepanto in Religious Iconographies: The Genoese Case Daniele Sanguineti 6. Accusation, Defense and Self-Defense: The Debate on the Action of Giovanni Andrea Doria in Lepanto Emiliano Beri 7. Celebrating Lepanto in the Republic of Genoa: Giovanni Andrea Doria’s and Other Aristocrats’ Patronage. Portraits, Paintings and Tapestries Laura Stagno Gallery Section 8. The Necessary Enemy: Reconsidering the Perception of the “Other” in a Society of War Contractors (Genoa, Spain and the Ottoman Empire – Sixteenth Century) Bastien Carpentier PART 3. AFTER THE BATTLE: SLAVES BETWEEN REALITY AND REPRESENTATION 9. In the Sign of Reciprocity: Muslim Slaves in Genoa and Genoese Slaves in Maghreb Andrea Zappia10. The Image of the Turkish Slave in a Peripheral Area of the Pontifical States: The Case of the Cycle of Villa Buonaccorsi in Potenza Picena Giuseppe Capriotti 11. ‘Cet obscur objet du désir’: Sex and Slavery in Early Modern Spanish Fiction Mercedes Alcalá Galán Illustration Credits About the Authors