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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the communication of power of the viceregal court of Spanish Naples in the seventeenth-century, showing how various forms of media affect politics, culture, and society -- .
Trade ReviewThe book has many overall merits: it examines topics and materials that have received limited attention by historians, and effectively contextualizes them within broader trends and issues of early modern political culture...(Guarino) persuasively analyzes the difficulties inherent in the viceroy's status...The book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern political culture and ritual, and of early modern Europe in general.
Tommaso Astarita, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2012
Guarino’s goals are achieved, in placing the visual court culture of Viceregal Naples in context of events and cultural shifts of the period, and in particular, by looking at the mostly positive reception of Spanish culture by the people of Naples . . . One of the chief strengths of this book is its clarity. Guarino is adept at setting up each chapter, and linking from section to section. . . "Representing the King’s Splendour" is a useful and deeply thought through study, making use of an impressive variety of printed sources.
Erebea, 2 (2012) [issn: 0214-0691] pp. 421-424.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
List of Spanish viceroys of Naples
1. Introduction
2. The ritual power of viceroys
I. The viceregal institution
II. Court ceremonial
III. The viceregal public image
3. The power of precedence: social and political hierarchies of civic processions
I. The hierarchical structure of cavalcades in early modern Naples
II. Extraordinary cavalcades and conflicts of precedence
4. State celebrations
I. The festive system of early modern Naples
II. Management, patronage, and reception of civic celebrations
III. Spanish tournaments in Neapolitan state festivities
5. Spanish fashion and the governance of appearances in viceregal Naples
I. Regulating appearances: Spanish fashion and the Catholic Reformation, 1517-1648
II. Successes and limitations of Spanish fashion
III. Governing appearances and luxury
6. Political utilisation of imprese in viceregal Naples
I. The uses of imprese in tournaments
II. Neapolitan imprese for the obsequies of the Habsburg monarchs
7. Conclusions
8. Bibliography
