Iskrena Yordanova & Francesco Cotticelli 
Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime [PDF ebook] 

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

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