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• Autore/i
  Vidic, F.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Dalla signoria alla corte: l’ascesa dei Cobenzl al servizio degli Asburgo
• Curatore/i
  Vidic, F., Stasi, A.
• Titolo del volume in cui è pubblicata
  I Cobenzl. Una famiglia europea tra politica, arte e diplomazia (1508-1823)
• Istituzione coinvolta nella pubblicazione
  Archivio di Stato di Gorizia
• Casa editrice
  Lithos
• Luogo pubblicazione
  Roma
• Da pagina
  457
• A pagina
  556
• Abstract
  Over the span of two generations, the Cobenzls were capable of a spectacular social and political rise that led them from the peripheral seigneury of San Daniele del Carso (Štanjel) to hold prestigious positions at the court of Vienna. The authors of this progression were Giovani Filippo and Giovanni Gasparo Cobenzl, father and son, in the decades around 1700s. The first, after ruling the County of Gorizia in an era of civil unrest, became captain of Trieste for over twenty years and then of Gorizia itself where he died in 1702. The second entered the court very young and, thanks to the support of the chancellor Bucelleni and archduke Charles, gained more and more offices. Taking over from his father as captain of Gorizia, he also embarked on an administrator career which then led him to Ljubljana. Only in 1722 did Charles VI call him to Vienna as court marshal and grand chamberlain, a position he held until the emperor’s death. The career of both Cobenzls reveals how one supported the other through the dynamic centre-periphery typical of the Habsburg Monarchy, which provided for a continuous exchange of economic and power resources between the two sides. Giovanni Filippo had the intuition and the ability to keep his son in Vienna in his early years, while Giovanni Gasparo managed to remedy his father’s failure to obtain Gorizia thanks to his deep understanding of the court mechanisms.
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