Twelve Cities – One Sea: Early Modern Mediterranean Port Cities and their Inhabitants (eds Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa)

The global picture of the cultural space in, on, around and beyond the Mediterranean Sea is one of a historically rich, vibrant, elusive place, with invented and competing imaginaries, a place that is continually called into question and brought under renewed examination. The twelve chapters that comprise this volume traverse all of them, taking the reader on an exclusive tour of the same number of key Mediterranean port cities of the early modern age. They are considered as places of distance and proximity, conflict and cooperation, order and disorder, autonomy and control