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Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour (Hardcover)
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Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour (Hardcover)
Series: British School at Rome Studies
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The Duchy of Savoy first claimed royal status in the seventeenth
century, but only in 1713 was Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy
(1666-1732), crowned King of Sicily. The events of the Peace of
Utrecht (1713) sanctioned the decades-long project, the Duchy had
pursued through the convoluted maze of political relationships
between foreign powers. Of these, the British Kingdom was one of
their most assiduous advocates, because of complimentary dynastic,
political, cultural and commercial interests. A notable stream of
British diplomats and visitors to the Savoy capital engaged in an
extraordinary and reciprocal exchange with the Turinese during this
fertile period. The flow of travellers, a number of whom were
British emissaries and envoys posted to the court, coincided, in
part, with the itineraries of the international Grand Tour which
transformed the capital into a gateway to Italy, resulting in a
conflagration of cultural cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe.
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