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• Autore/i
  Cont, A.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Le corti di Baviera e di Sassonia nelle testimonianze epistolari di gentiluomini italiani della seconda metà del Seicento
• Titolo giornale o rivista in cui è pubblicata
  "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken"
• Numero di serie del libro o giornale
  98
• Da pagina
  247
• A pagina
  280
• Abstract
  The study of the relations between the Italian princely courts and that of Bavaria during the Baroque period can make use of five collections of letters, mostly unpublished. They were sent by some aristocrats from Turin, Mantua and Florence, active in Munich or under arms on the Hungarian front under the elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Wittelsbach, to their governments at various times between 1676 and 1688. These letters, now in the state archives of Turin, Mantua and Florence, reveal hitherto unknown information on the ruling family of Bavaria and shed new light on the power dynamics at the top level of one of the most important German states. At the same time, they highlight some of the diplomatic strategies pursued by the Ducal dynasties of the Italian peninsula in the composite world of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The content of the letters also indicates the difficulties and problems encountered by the authors in adapting to a foreign land, partly due to the diversity of climate and customs, but also the prestige and the material advantages they might obtain from the interrelations between the société des princes and the international nobility. For example, whilst Giovanni Battista D’Oria di Ciriè was forced to return to Turin by lack of economic resources, Carlo Maria Vialardi’s successful negotiations in Munich on behalf of the duke of Mantua was rewarded by an official mission to Dresden, from where he sent dispatches that provide us with informations and suggestions for comparing the two electoral courts of Saxony and Bavaria.