«Un Regno grande e populatissimo». Assolutismo e diplomazia nella Francia del XVII secolo

In his Relatione della corte di Francia, the Venetian ambassador Michele Morosini recounted the "facts" of the other side of the Alps around 1655, he informed about the men of government, the army and the navy, painting a personal and particular portrait of Louis XIV, by that court and that state have become archetypes of absolute power presented in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.