The Age of Baroque
Politics
Art, architecture, music
Philosophy, science and religion
Popes and kings
Clergy and saints
clerics
Loreto
Compagnia di Gesù
Madonna
St Gennaro
Language debate
The press, printing
linguistic norm
Petrarch (poetry), Boccaccio (prose)
Tuscan (vernacular/court)
Dizionario (1797-1805)
Succession wars
Mantua (1627)
30 Years (1618-48)
Spain (1700)
Poland (1735)
Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
The South
identity
Naples
local nobility
Italy
weak Spanish control
The South
reputation
bravi
hunger
flour
feasts
Tommaso Campanella
state and religious powers
Sun City (1602)
Pon (Potenza)
Sin (Sapienza)
Mor (Amore)
Science and religion
Giordano Bruno (d. 1600)
parallel universes
Galileo Galilei
Aristoteles
S.J.
..
Painting
Garavaggio
chiaroscuro
common people
Tiepolo
Canaletto
God’s splendour
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
‘artistic director’
Francesco Borromini
Alexander VII
Grand Tour
Commedia dell’Arte
Venice
Zanni
‘improvised’ comedy
travelling
identity
Opera
song
Florence
Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo (1607)
Italian
Baroque jewels
Arcangelo Corelli
Alessandro Scarlatti
Antonio Vivaldi
Tomaso Albinoni
sonatas, solo violin concerto, concerto grosso