The Politics of Princely Entertainment: Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna

by Valeria De Lucca

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190631139
• ISBN13: 9780190631130
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"