Court Culture in the Spanish and Italian 18th Century: Diplomacy, Music, Literature and Art, I, Politics and Diplomacy

Niccolò Guasti; Anna Maria Rao

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-183-3

Court Culture in the Spanish and Italian 18th Century: Diplomacy, Music, Literature and Art, I, Politics and Diplomacy

Authors

Niccolò Guasti

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3586-0505

Anna Maria Rao

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3496-732X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-183-3

Keywords:

Courts, politics, diplomacy, Italy, Spain, 18th century

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 413

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29619

Abstract: The volume collects the contributions of international scholars on court culture in Spain and in the Italian states in the eighteenth century, presented on the occasion of the second international congress of the Italian society and the Spanish society of studies on the eighteenth century, held in Salamanca on 16- March 18, 2022. Particular attention is paid to the political and diplomatic aspects, investigated through a wide range of different sources: public and private correspondence, memoirs, ceremonies, iconographic sources. The royal and noble courts are flanked by the papal court and the many courts animated by ministers, patricians, nobles and noblewomen, and by the diplomatic agents themselves. The study of political and cultural exchanges between their various courtly locations is intertwined with the comparative investigation between Italy and Spain. What emerges is an unprecedented picture of the relations between the Italian states and the Spanish monarchy in the eighteenth century.

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Author Biographies

Niccolò Guasti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Niccolò Guasti is associate professor in Early Modern History at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emila. His main research are focused on Eighteenth century enlightened reforms, the Neapolitan Enlightenment and the Italian exile of the Iberian Jesuits. He was visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Universities of Alicante and Stettin. He is currently a member of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’s scientific board. He is the author of several journal essays and some monographs including L’esilio italiano dei gesuiti spagnoli. Identità, controllo sociale e pratiche culturali (1767-1798), Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2006; Juan Andrés e la cultura del Settecento, Milano, Mimesis, 2017; Collegi e masserie. I gesuiti nel Regno di Napoli (secoli XVI-XVIII), Milano, Jouvence, 2022.

Anna Maria Rao, University of Naples Federico II

Anna Maria Rao is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. She was president of the International Commission on the History of the French Revolution and of the Italian Society of Studies on the XVIII Century. She deals with the political and cultural history of eighteenth-century Southern Italy and the revolutionary and Napoleonic age. Among her recent publications: Lumi riforme rivoluzione. Percorsi storiografici, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011; Corte e cerimoniale di Carlo di Borbone a Napoli (a cura), Napoli, FedOA Press, 2020; Mezzogiorno feudale. Feudi e nobiltà da Carlo di Borbone al Decennio francese, Napoli, FedOA Press, 2022; Norma e contestazione nel XVIII secolo (a cura, con D. Cecere e A. Di Ricco), Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023.