Research Catalog

Title

Turin and the British in the age of the grand tour / edited by Paola Bianchi, Università della Valle d'Aosta, Karin Wolfe, British School at Rome.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bianchi, Paola
• Wolfe, Karin Elizabeth

Description

xxvii, 487 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm

Summary

"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 Savoy 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."--Back cover.

Series Statement

British School at Rome studies

Uniform Title

British School at Rome studies.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• British > Italy > Turin > History > 18th century
• Travelers > Italy > Turin > 18th century
• British
• International relations
• Travelers
• Turin (Italy) > History > 18th century
• Italy > Relations > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Relations > Italy
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Italy > Turin

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe -- Part I. Britain in Turin: politics and culture at the Savoy Court -- England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts / Toby Osbourne -- Marriage proposals: seventeenth-century Stuart-Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics / Andrea Pennini -- The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712-20 / Edward Corp -- 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 -- The British at the Turin Royal Academy: cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism / Paola Bianchi -- Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy / Andrew Moore -- "Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture": British residents and travellers in and about Turin, 1747-8 / Edoardo Piccoli -- The British and freemasonry in eighteenth-century Turin / Andrea Merlotti -- Part III. Torino Britannica: diplomacy and cultural brokerage -- John Molesworth: British envoy and cultural intermediary in Turin / Karin Wolfe -- 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 -- The "savoyard": the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters / Jonathan Yarker -- The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in the eighteenth century / Paolo Cozzo -- Part IV. Turin and Britain: architectural crossroads -- Architects and kings in grand tour Europe / Tommaso Manfredi -- A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for Lord Burlington / Cristina Ruggero -- 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 -- Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international language of diplomacy and modernity / Christopher M.S. Johns -- "Alla China": the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont / Cristina Mossetti -- 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 -- A plurality of Pluras: the Plura family of sculptors between Turin and Britain / Alastair Laing -- "A memorable era in the instrumental music of this kingdom": Piedmontese musicians in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century / Annarita Colturato -- The British Baretti: didactics and criticism / Cristina Bracchi -- Vittorio Alfieri and the "English republic": reflections on an elective affinity / Francesca Fedi.

Call Number

JFF 18-243

ISBN

• 9781107147706
• 1107147700

LCCN

2017032434

OCLC

991011628

Title

Turin and the British in the age of the grand tour / edited by Paola Bianchi, Università della Valle d'Aosta, Karin Wolfe, British School at Rome.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

British School at Rome studies

British School at Rome studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Added Author

Bianchi, Paola, editor.

Wolfe, Karin Elizabeth, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-243