Noble Magnificence. Culture of the Performing Arts in Rome 1644-1740

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Paperback, 619 pages, Size:230 x 280 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 154 col., 6 maps color, 5 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503613123. Summary The thirty chapters in this book are based on the work of an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers and archivists brought together for the PerformArt project, funded by the European Research Council from 2016 to 2022. This project investigated the artistic patronage of the great Roman aristocratic families of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through research in the extant archives. After the accession to the papal throne of Innocent X in 1644, and more so after the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659 - which led to a greater loss of power for the pope in his relations with other European states - the Roman families stepped up their efforts to assert their social preeminence not only through architecture and the fine arts, but also through the ephemeral performing arts: music, theatre, and dance, which were omnipresent throughout the year and especially during the intense period of artistic production that was the Roman Carnival. The search for traces of these spectacles in the archives of these families reveals that their desire to display their magnificence - an ideal well documented in the literature of the period - gave rise to lavish expenditure on a scale that could only be justified by the benefits (if not tangible, then at least symbolic) they hoped to gain. The essays in this book, which draw on social economic history, the history of ideas, and the evolving artistic practices of the time, make a major contribution to our knowledge of courtly societies in Ancien Régime Europe by integrating the performing arts into their analyses in innovative ways. TABLE OF CONTENTS Overture Anne-Madeleine GOULET, Introduction - Prologue: The Roman Context Isabella CECCHINI and Anne-Madeleine GOULET, Some Thoughts about the Roman Context Irene FOSI, Magnificence and the Roman Nobility between the Papacy and Europe I. The Economy of Magnificence Benoît MARÉCHAUX, Patrons, Aristocratic Patrimonies and Finance: Reconsidering the Economic Foundations of Private Magnificence in Rome (c. 1650-1700) Isabella CECCHINI, Instruments of Magnificence. Finance and Credit in Early Modern Rome Maurizio PEGRARI, The Costs of Magnificence, the Magnificence of Costs: Nobility, Economics, and Status in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Rome Isabella CECCHINI and Anne-Madeleine GOULET, Celebrating a Wedding in the Lante della Rovere Family: An Exercise in Magnificence (1682-83) Cristina FERNANDES, Portuguese Patronage in Rome and the Economics of Magnificence: La Virtù negl'amori by Alessandro Scarlatti at the Teatro Capranica (1721) - Intermezzo I. Into the Family Archives Marco CAVIETTI, Portraying the Family in Household Archives in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Orsetta BARONCELLI, The Computista and the Archivista: Two Key Figures in the Management of Roman Family Archives in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Letizia LELI, Reordering a Family Archive in the Seventeenth Century: The Case of the Lante della Rovere Archive II. Social Values and Moral Principles Aldo ROMA, Education to Magnificence: Aristocratic Schooling and College Academies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Rome Sarah MALFATTI, Patronage and Pastoral Simplicity in Arcadia: Patronus nullus esto - the Case of Francesco Maria Ruspoli (1707-21) Diana BLICHMANN, Sumptuousness versus Sobriety: Magnificence in the Musical Productions at Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni's Teatro della Cancelleria (1710-12) Valeria DE LUCCA, Ars moriendi in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Staging Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna's Death - Intermezzo II. Some Thoughts on Method Manuela GRILLO and Michela BERTI, Magnificenza as a Paradigm in the Development of a Thesaurus: From Scientific Research to a Difficult Definition, and Back Again III. Conquering and Asserting Magnificence Sara Elisa STANGALINO, Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna 'L'Africano': Mi.…

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Noble Magnificence. Culture of the Performing Arts in Rome 1644-1740
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Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Michela Berti (eds)
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, Brepols, 2024
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Soft cover

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