The Politics of Princely Entertainment : Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna

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The Politics of Princely Entertainment follows the travels of Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and Maria Mancini, two of the most active music patrons of seventeenth-century Italy, tracing their influence on music across a rapidly transforming Europe through the singers, composers, and librettists they supported.