Musical theater in eighteenth-century Parma : entertainment, sovereignty, reform / by Butler, Margaret Ruth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the genre problem: reform as continuum and brand -- The genesis of Parma's projet -- Behind the scenes: production and management at the Teatro ducale -- The French entertainments: creation, publicity, propaganda -- Moving on while looking back: Traetta's first Parma operas -- The end of the end of reform: the wedding, the French ambassador's opera -- Traetta's departure -- Conclusion: reform revisited -- Appendix: general chronology.…”
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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma : Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform / by Butler, Margaret Ruth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the genre problem: reform as continuum and brand -- The genesis of Parma's projet -- Behind the scenes: production and management at the Teatro ducale -- The French entertainments: creation, publicity, propaganda -- Moving on while looking back: Traetta's first Parma operas -- The end of the end of reform: the wedding, the French ambassador's opera -- Traetta's departure -- Conclusion: reform revisited -- Appendix: general chronology.…”
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Musical theater in eighteenth-century Parma : entertainment, sovereignty, reform / by Butler, Margaret Ruth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the genre problem: reform as continuum and brand -- The genesis of Parma's projet -- Behind the scenes: production and management at the Teatro ducale -- The French entertainments: creation, publicity, propaganda -- Moving on while looking back: Traetta's first Parma operas -- The end of the end of reform: the wedding, the French ambassador's opera -- Traetta's departure -- Conclusion: reform revisited -- Appendix: general chronology.…”
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Giambattista Bodoni : his life and his world / by Lester, Valerie Browne, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Saluzzo, 1740-1758 -- Rome, 1758-1766 -- The invitation -- Parma, 1768 -- The Duchess and Du Tillot -- Bodoni at work -- José Nicolás de Azara -- Margherita Dall'Aglio -- The private press and the Amoretti and Didot debacles -- Gout and a grape seed -- Two thefts and a fire -- 1798 : the triumphal return and life on the farm -- A letter from Jean-George Handwerck -- The death of a duke, the presentation of a medal, and the death of a duke -- Napoleon -- 1806-1813 -- Il bajon -- La vedova.…”

Tommaso Traetta and the fusion of Italian and French opera in Parma / by Loomis, George W.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Ippolito ed Aricia -- I Tindaridi -- Le feste d'Imeneo -- Enea e Lavinia -- Recitative -- Arias -- Other genres -- Aspects of Traetta's musical style -- Traetta's reform operas after Parma : Sofonisba, Ifigenia in Tauride, Antigona -- Epilogue.…”
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Opera and sovereignty : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; "Cruel Phaedra!" …”

The trial of Warren Hastings : classical oratory and reception in eighteenth-century England / by Rolli, Chiara

Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Nieremberg, American Wonders, and Preterimperial Natural History / Juan Pimentel -- Cosmopolitanism and Scientific Reason in New Spain: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Dispute over the 1680 Comet / Anna More -- Medical Mestizaje and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala, 1660-1730 / Martha Few -- "Read All About It": Science, Translation, Adaptation, and Confrontation in the Gazeta de Literatura de México, 1788-1795 / Fiona Clark -- The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics / Nuria Valverde and Antonio Lafuente -- Knowledge and Empiricism in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Voyaging in the Spanish Baroque: Science and Patronage in the Pacific Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 / Kevin Sheehan -- Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire / Timothy Walker -- The Rare, the Singular, and the Extraordinary: Natural History and the Collection of Curiosities in the Spanish Empire / Paula De Vos -- A Visible and Useful Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Natural History in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World / Daniela Bleichmar -- Afterword / Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook.…”
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