Description
Book SynopsisDealing with a complex king, this edited collection elucidates a monarch’s vision of Rome that deeply affected his political choices and cultural policy during the first half of the eighteenth-century. John V of Portugal became king in 1707 in a pivotal moment for the European balance of power. The Kingdom of Portugal was still demanding the same privileges as its powerful neighbours and the relation with Rome was considered a vehicle to obtain them. Arts and music had a special and unprecedented place in the king’s plans and this book approaches that dynamic from several interdisciplinary perspectives.
The unifying thread across this book’s chapters remains the omnipresence of Rome as a paradigm on several levels: political, religious, intellectual, artistic, and musical. Rather than providing an exhaustive analysis of the period as a whole, this study offers a fresh approach for English readers to this classic, but little known, topic in Portuguese national historiography.
Trade Review‘This study […] constitutes a far richer and more subtle description of music in Lisbon at the time of King João V than what was previously available, and provides a broader and richer political and sociocultural context.’Translated from Spanish:‘Este estudio […] constituye una descripción mucho más completa y sutil de la música de Lisboa en la época del rey João V que la disponible hasta ahora y proporciona un contexto político y sociocultural más amplio y rico.’ David Cranmer,
Cuadernos de música iberoamericana‘[Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome] constitutes a much more complete and subtle description of the music of Lisbon in the time of King João V than is available up to now and provides a broader and richer political and sociocultural context.’
David Cranmer, Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana
Translated from Spanish,
‘[Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome] Constituye una descripción mucho más completa y sutil de la música de Lisboa en la época del rey João V que la disponible hasta ahora y proporciona un contexto político y sociocultural más amplio y rico.’
'Meticulously researched and well presented, this new book of studies successfully blends diplomatic, artistic, and cultural history, masterfully evoking a period which has often been studied, yet rarely with the depth that these new scholars bring to the table. The sheer variety of sources, both archival and printed, bring to light hitherto unconsidered facets of this fascinating period and monarch.'
James W. Nelson Novoa,
Journal of Early Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira, Introduction: il viaggio mancato – John V and the origins of his vision of Rome
I. Rome: paradigm and propaganda
David Martín Marcos, Beyond policy: shaping the image of John V of Portugal in Rome
Marília de Azambuja Ribeiro, Politics, spectacle and propaganda: the political use of patronage and the press by John V’s representatives in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century
Danielle Kuntz, ‘S’unisca il Tago al Tebro, il Tebro al Tago’: the politics of Portuguese patronage in Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Virtù negli amori
Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira,The Accademia del Portogallo: emulation and strategy in the papal city
II. Lisbon: creative reappropriation
Cristina Fernandes, Music, ceremonial and architectural spaces in the patriarchal church of King John V: the remaking of Roman models
Fernando Miguel M. Jalôto, Antonio Tedeschi, ‘Sanctæ Patriarchalis Ecclesiæ Regius Cantor’: an Italian musician at the court of John V
Giuseppina Raggi, Rethinking the artistic policy of King John V of Portugal and Queen Maria Anna of Habsburg: architecture and opera theatre
Iris Haist, The marbles and the modelli of Mafra: John V and the taste for Italian baroque sculpture
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