The role of "Reichsitalien"(feudal system of the Holy Roman Empire in Italia) in the early modern European international relationship

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Italy of 17. century has been believed to be a early model of the system of the sovereign states. To this view, in this project the relationship between the Holy Roman Emperors and the Italian principalities which were formally the fiefs of him (so-called German "Reichsitalien" or Italian "feudi imperiali") was reserched, especially focused on the prosopography. Consequently it was found that this system was worked enough to keep the peace among them by the networks of the client-princes of Emperors and Spanish Kings. Thus this "Reichsitalien" functioned effrectively as a political system not of the sovereign states but of the certain human networks under the juridical right of the Emperors and the executive power of the Dukes Milan (Spanish Kings), although this principalities have been directly governed by the Emperors on their military occupations since the end of the 17. century. It means that they were not the early model of the international system of the sovereign states.