El escudo italiano de los reyes de España. Un invento de la industria editorial romana (siglos XVII-XVIII).

Zusammenfassung

When we think of the great arms of the Hispanic Monarchy we see the seals, the coins, the heraldic carvings that follow the model imposed by Felipe II in the so-called Nueva Estampa, to which the shield of Portugal was later added. But in this model the Italian territories of Naples, Milan or the kingdom of Navarre were not represented. At the end of the reign of Felipe II, these territories sought to make their arms visible within the model imposed by the king, each one will do it in their own way, even in official media, but none will do it globally, that is, by placing the weapons of all of them However, the roman printers did decide to create a shield model that would show all the territories of the most powerful of the monarchs of the time, the Catholic King, and thus it will appear on the covers of some roman editions. This shield would be the origin of a consolidated model within that publishing industry, which would lead it to show covers and magnificent bindings with that design, which would be maintained until the reign of Carlos III, that is, it was used for almost a century and a half. and it will be the heraldic model with the presence of the largest number of territories that at some point belonged to the Hispanic Monarchy.