The Age of Baroque

Politics

Art, architecture, music

Philosophy, science and religion

Popes and kings

Clergy and saints

clerics

Loreto

Compagnia di Gesù

Madonna

St Gennaro

Language debate

The press, printing

linguistic norm

Petrarch (poetry), Boccaccio (prose)

Tuscan (vernacular/court)

Dizionario (1797-1805)

Succession wars

Mantua (1627)

30 Years (1618-48)

Spain (1700)

Poland (1735)

Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)

The South

identity

Naples

local nobility

Italy

weak Spanish control

The South

reputation

bravi

hunger

flour

feasts

Tommaso Campanella

state and religious powers

Sun City (1602)

Pon (Potenza)

Sin (Sapienza)

Mor (Amore)

Science and religion

Giordano Bruno (d. 1600)

parallel universes

Galileo Galilei

Aristoteles

S.J.

..

Painting

Garavaggio

chiaroscuro

common people

Tiepolo

Canaletto

God’s splendour

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

‘artistic director’

Francesco Borromini

Alexander VII

Grand Tour

Commedia dell’Arte

Venice

Zanni

‘improvised’ comedy

travelling

identity

Opera

song

Florence

Claudio Monteverdi

Orfeo (1607)

Italian

Baroque jewels

Arcangelo Corelli

Alessandro Scarlatti

Antonio Vivaldi

Tomaso Albinoni

sonatas, solo violin concerto, concerto grosso