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• Autore/i
  Vidic, F.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Cobenzl, Rosenberg e la “diplomazia degli specchi” (Bonn - L’Aja, 1744-1746)
• 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
  677
• A pagina
  706
• Abstract
  A rich folder of diplomatic correspondence preserved in Gorizia and dating back to the final phase of the War of the Austrian Succession has revealed the letters between the ambassadors Philipp Joseph von Rosenberg and Charles Cobenzl. They offer unpublished details of the dispute that took place at the court of Clemens August von Wittelsbach, archbishop-elector of Cologne, among the representatives of Austria and France in 1744-1746. Rosenberg asked Cobenzl for help in obtaining from the elector the dispatch of a contingent for the “Pragmatic Army” deployed by the Anglo-Habsburg allies against the French invasion of Flanders. However, Cobenzl’s skill and unscrupulousness did not help him to overcome the comfortable position of neutrality pursued by the Prince of Cologne, nor the traps of his French opponent, abbé Aunillon, whose memoirs (published in the Napoleonic era) offer another point of view of the same events. The struggle continued between ambiguities, thefts, falsifications and low blows of all kinds. In this “diplomacy of mirrors” Cobenzl managed to avoid making a bad impression on the court of Vienna, which appreciated his activism and his tireless energy in relating with the small German sovereigns gathered in the Circles of the Empire. The office of minister to the Circles, although not very coveted, became essential for the election of Francis Stephen of Lorraine as emperor in 1745, of which Cobenzl was recognized as one of the main architects.
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