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Iskrena Yordanova, Francesco Cotticelli (eds.): Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Cadernos de Queluz 2 / Specula Spectacula 7), 546 S., 17,5 x 24,5 cm, Italian | Portuguese | English | Spanish, hardcover with dust jacket

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Iskrena Yordanova , Francesco Cotticelli

Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime

This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

ISKRENA YORDANOVA - FRANCESCO COTTICELLI

 

PART I

THE POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC DIMENSIONS OF MUSIC CULTURE’S  PROTECTIONISM IN SEVENTEENTH-AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE

 

«…und mit der Protektion […] wird er, so hoffe ich, allen Beistand finden».

Meccanismi e protezionismo: «viaggiatori» stranieri…

HELEN GEYER

 

«Cacciarsi per tutto».
Considerazioni sull’«invenzione viaggiante» e gli spazi del potere

FRANCESCO COTTICELLI

 

PART II

FLORENCE 1625 / VIENNA 1782: THE CROWN PRINCE'S GRAND TOUR AND ITS IMPACT ON MUSICAL CULTURE

 

Ópera y diplomacia entre Italia y Polonia:

del paso de Vladislao Vasa por Florencia hasta la inauguración del teatro de Varsovia

DANIEL MARTÍN SÁEZ

 

When Music Suits Diplomacy:
The Grand Tour of Pavel Petrovich Romanov, 1781–1782

ANNA GIUST

 

PART III

MILAN: MANAGING OPERA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

 

Patriziato, corti e impresariato teatrale in Italia nella seconda metà
del XVII secolo: il caso di Milano

ROBERTA CARPANI

 

PART IV

ROME: A STAGE FOR EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY

 

Al suo Augustissimo Servitio Nobili e coronate Teste Patrone
dei madrigali del musico di camera Domenico Dal Pane

MARIA PAOLA DEL DUCA

 

Il cardinale Pietro Ottoboni, la diplomazia e la musica (1689–1721)

TERESA CHIRICO

 

I cardinali Francesco e Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona
nella cultura di corte del settecento romano

ROBERTO RICCI

 

PART V

THE PALATINATE (KURPFALZ): THE DYNASTIC AND DIPLOMATICAL STRATEGIES OF ELECTOR PHILIPP WILHELM AND HIS SON JOHANN WILHELM

 

Le figlie del Palatinato:
rigenerazione del sangue e trasferimenti culturali tra le corti europee

GIULIO SODANO

 

Dal Reno alla penisola iberica:
i «musici» spia dell’elettore Palatino Giovanni Guglielmo (1690–1716)
durante la Guerra di Successione Spagnola

VALENTINA ANZANI

 

PART VI

LISBON: DIPLOMACY AND THE STAGE

 

Lisbona nello specchio di Vienna:
le lettere di Giuseppe Zignoni per una nuova visione sul teatro
e sull’opera italiana in Portogallo

GIUSEPPINA RAGGI

 

The Noblemen’s Balcony:
a Perspective on Theatre Subscription

JOSÉ CAMõES - BRUNO HENRIQUES

 

Ópera italiana, Corte portuguesa, Embajador español.
El VI conde de Fernán Núñez y su labor como organizador musical
en la Lisboa de 1785

FRANCISCO JOSÉ ROSAL NADALES

 

PART VII

NAPLES: THE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF SPANISH AMBASSADORS UNDER THE REIGN OF CARLO BORBONE AND HIS SON FERDINAND

 

«Fece spiccare la magnificenza del suo Padrone»:
le feste ispaniche per la nascita dell’erede al trono di Napoli (1748)

PAOLOGIOVANNI MAIONE

 

Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui:
musica, arte e mecenatismo nella Napoli borbonica di Carlo III
e Ferdinando IV

PAOLA DE SIMONE - NICOLÒ MACCAVINO

 

PART VIII

VENICE, DRESDEN, BERLIN, VIENNA: DIPLOMACY AND AESTHETIC DISCOURSE

 

Note sul processo creativo del Saggio sopra l’opera in musica
di Francesco Algarotti: una testimonianza di cultura europea

GIOVANNI POLIN

 

La Guerra dei Sette Anni (1756–1763).
Politica, miti e glorificazione di Casa d’Austria in alcuni spettacoli della «riforma» del conte Durazzo

ARMANDO FABIO IVALDI

 

APPENDIX

 

INDEX OF PERSONS

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS