Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bianchi, Paola

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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 Sabaudian 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108515559
• Artikelnr.: 49271464

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements Christopher J.
Smith and Andrea Merlotti; Foreword Martin Postle; Introduction Paola
Bianchi and Karin Wolfe; Part I. Britain in Turin: Politics and Culture at
the Savoy Court: 1. England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural
relations under the early Stuarts Toby Osborne; 2. Marriage proposals:
seventeenth-century Stuart-Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics Andrea
Pennini; 3. The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712-20 Edward
Corp; 4. The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and
British élite identity, 1688-1789/98 Christopher Storrs; Part II. Turin:
Gateway to Grand Tour Society: 5. The British at the Turin Royal Academy:
cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism Paola Bianchi; 6. Thomas Coke in
Turin and the Turin Royal Academy Andrew Moore; 7. 'Never a more favorable
reception than in the present juncture': British residents and travellers
in and about Turin, 1747-8 Edoardo Piccoli; 8. The British and Freemasonry
in eighteenth-century Turin Andrea Merlotti; Part III. Torino Britannica:
Diplomacy and Cultural Brokerage: 9. John Molesworth: British envoy and
cultural intermediary in Turin Karin Wolfe; 10. Silver from London and
Turin: diplomacy by display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, Envoy
Extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755-8 James Rothwell; 11. The
'Savoyard': the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters Jonathan
Yarker; 12. The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in
the eighteenth century Paola Cozzo; Part IV. Turin and Britain:
Architectural Crossroads: 13. Architects and kings in Grand Tour Europe
Tomasso Manfredi; 14. A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for
Lord Burlington Cristina Ruggero; 15. Crossing borders: the pioneering role
of the architect-engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and
Britain Olga Zoller; Part V. Britain and Turin: Chinoiserie as an
International Aesthetic: 16. Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international
language of diplomacy and modernity Christopher M. S. Johns; 17. 'Alla
China': the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont
Cristina Mossetti; 18. The British garden in Piedmont in the late
eighteenth century: variations on the picturesque, the Anglo-Chinese and
the landscape garden Paolo Cornaglia; Part VI. Turin in Britain: Cultural
Exchange in Grand Tour Europe: 19. A plurality of pluras: the Plura family
of sculptors between Turin and Britain Alastair Laing; 20. 'A memorable era
in the instrumental music of this kingdom': Piedmontese musicians in London
in the latter half of the eighteenth century Annarita Colturato; 21. The
British Baretti: didactics and criticism Cristina Bracchi; 22. Vittorio
Alfieri and the 'English Republic': reflections on an elective affinity
Francesca Fedi; Appendices: I. British diplomats and visitors to Turin in
the eighteenth century Christopher Storrs; Sabaudian diplomats to London in
the eighteenth century Andrea Merlotti; II. British attendees at the Turin
Royal Academy Paola Bianchi; III. Letters from the Molesworth-Galilei
correspondence, 1721-5 Karin Wolfe; References; Index.