The most Serene and Magnificent Republic. Public Festivities in Venice during the Morean War
(2019) Magnificence in the 17th century — Location: Madrid (7.March.2019)
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- The 1680s marked a new stage in the history of Venitian pageantry and encomiastic production. As the loss of Candia (1669) affected the Republic in both cultural and economic terms, the military triumphs of future Doge Francesco Morosini in Eastern Mediterranean, culminating in the conquest of Peloponnese (1687) at the expense of Ottoman territory, were grounds for a series of lavish celebrations, both sacred and profane. The solemn processions, the fireworks and the illuminations, the ephemeral arches built on city’s bridges, as well as the regattas displaying sumptuous boats and costumes, were designed to put on stage a victorious Republic, ready to resume its leading role in the Levant. The same representation shapes the many printed texts (poems, ragguagli, and festival books) that were dedicated to Morosini’s heroic deeds. Our paper aims to investigate such corpus, with reference in particular to I numi a diporto sull’Adriatico (1688): a festival book that illustrates, through both a detailed account and several plates, the regatta held during the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand III’s visit in Venice. In light of a comparative approach, our paper seeks to grasp how the concept of magnificence functioned in seventeenth-century Republican context. By focusing on devices and mechanisms of magnificence related to and represented by the rhetorical and graphic means of the sources, our paper intends to examine the performative dimension of magnificence and how this concept is appropriated by various political constellations.
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Heering, C., & Metlica, A. (2019). The most Serene and Magnificent Republic. Public Festivities in Venice during the Morean War. Magnificence in the 17th century, Madrid. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/121771