Celebrations of the peace of the pyrenees in baroque Rome: two cantatas of Giovanni Pietro Monesio and Giovanni Lotti

• Autores: Nadia Amendola
• Localización: III Encuentro Iberoamericano de Jóvenes Musicólogos: actas. Sevilla, 10-11 marzo 2016 / Marco Brescia (ed. lit.), Rosana Marreco Brescia (ed. lit.), 2016, págs. 39-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) was the result of the French involvement in the Thirty Years War. All the European powers got dragged into the warfare, including Italy. When peace was signed through the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, great celebrations were organized by Cardinal Antonio Barberini in Rome.

    Music and poetry played an important role both in sacred and in secular moments of the Roman festive event, for example through musical genre of the Italian chamber cantata