Scheda Pubblicazione

Dettaglio

• Autore/i
  Cont, A.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Riccardo e Bruto Annibaldi della Molara: professioni, strategie, affetti nella nobiltà romana del Seicento
• Titolo giornale o rivista in cui è pubblicata
  “Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica”
• Mese
  12
• Da pagina
  231
• A pagina
  259
• Abstract
  The brothers Riccardo and Bruto Annibaldi della Molara, lived in the Seventeenth Century, belonged to an ancient but impoverished family of the Roman nobility. While the first one was governor of several cities in the Papal States and later Bishop of Veroli, the second one was a layman and served the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Cardinal Nerli iunior and the Gran Connestabile Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna. Thanks to many, unpublished archival sources, especially epistolary documents, it is possible to reconstruct the careers, the personal and family strategies, and the mutual relations of the two personages. The novelty of the research is to make clear the emotional and career paths of “poor” aristocrats of the Baroque Italy, who had to win the esteem and protection of rich and powerful lords. The historiographical ideas that have encouraged and accompanied this article are various, especially coming from the current scientific debates about the family networks, the generational relationships and the dialectic between patronage and ethic of service to the prince in Early Modern Italy.