"La difesa del ciel vince ogni sforza" Symbolical Presentation of the Habsburgs' Dynastic Situation in the Operas Il fuoco eterno custodito dalle Vestali (1674) and Costanza e Fortezza (1723)
Abstract:It is no coincidence that the two most memorable and costly Baroque courtly festivities took place in a period not particularly favourable to the Austrian Habsburgs in terms of the continuation of the dynasty The first of these was in the 1660s and 1670s, when Leopold I had to wait long for his first marriage and even longer for the birth of a son; the second was in the 1720s, when Leopold's son Charles VI, likewise without a male heir, used symbolic self-representation to defend the Pragmatic Sanction Festivi… Show more
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