Around Ambrogio: his family network between Genoa, Milan and Spain, and Giovanni Botero’s Eulogy

Undertaking a multi-voice analysis of a figure as fundamentally important as Ambrogio Spinola can generate a model for future research projects identifying the careers and kinship networks of a great many eminent figures in European Early Modern history and beyond it, too, as the context is that of the global scope of the Spanish Empire. These are clearly ambitious projects which can be structured in both traditional conference, study, and printed volume forms, like this one, or from the more lively and fertile perspective of Digital Humanities which not only enables archive material to be gathered (as well as literary...