1. ‘Donna regale in auree scene t'apre il mondo in teatro': Maria Camilla Pallavicini Rospigliosi and Opera in Rome at the End of the Seventeenth Century
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Nestola, Barbara, Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323 (CESR), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Consolidator Grant de l’European Research Council, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Michela Berti, European Project: 681415,PERFORMART, Nestola, Barbara, and Promoting, Patronising and Practising the Arts in Roman Aristocratic Families (1644-1740). The Contribution of Roman Families’ Archives to the History of Performing Arts - PERFORMART - 681415 - INCOMING
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[SHS.MUSIQ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts ,[SHS.MUSIQ]Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts ,Arcadia ,Academism ,Patronage of music ,Opera librettos ,Italian Opera - Abstract
International audience; In 1670, the marriage between Giovanni Battista Rospigliosi, nephew of Pope Clemente IX, and Maria Camilla Pallavicini, of Genoese origin, ratified the creation of a new dynasty: the house of Rospigliosi-Pallavicini. Both husband and wife were descended from non-Roman families; together they worked hard to consolidate their social advancement. Both were cultured, avid art collectors and music patrons; each cultivated individual interests and tastes. The Duchess Rospigliosi, in particular, made a name for herself at the beginning of the 1690s through the promotion of a series of operas in the theatre of the Palazzo al Quirinale, where the new family resided. This essay analyses various types of sources, such as chronicles, avvisi (manuscript newsletters), librettos, and celebratory poems related to these events, with two main goals: to reconstruct the network of literati, artists, and musicians who gravitated around the Rospigliosi, and to uncover the ways in which the Duchess successfully made herself visible on the Roman ‘stage’ at the end of the seventeenth century.
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- 2023