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The Politics of Princely Entertainment - Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Princely Entertainment - Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna (Hardcover)
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Throughout early modern Europe, patronage became a means for the
dominant classes to highlight their wealth, intellectual finesse,
and cultural and political agendas, particularly within the court
and religious institutions. Musical events like operas and carnival
parades were an especially essential component of this patronage.
However, the ways in which music patronage changed during the
second half of the seventeenth century have largely remained
underexplored. At the time, profound social and cultural
transformations influenced the production and consumption of music
in radical and permanent ways, not least through the influence of
the Colonna family - Prince Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and his wife
Maria Mancini. Two of the most active patrons of
seventeenth-century Italy, they were particularly active in the
musical life of Rome. Through their sponsorship of an unprecedented
number of operas, serenatas, and oratorios, they supported the
careers of the most prominent composers, librettists, and musicians
of the period. A new exploration of this period of music patronage,
The Politics of Princely Entertainment follows Lorenzo Onofrio and
Maria beyond the borders of Rome and through their far-reaching
personal and institutional travels - to Venice, Naples, and the
Kingdom of Aragon. Author Valeria De Lucca traces the journeys of
not only scores and librettos, but also the singers, composers, and
librettists whose art reached these distant corners of Europe
through the Colonna family's patronage activities. The Politics of
Princely Entertainment is a welcome addition to scholarly
understanding of music patronage beyond traditional boundaries of
gender, geography, and institutions.
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