RT Book, Section
T1 Patrons, Aristocratic Patrimonies and Finance: Reconsidering the Economic Foundations of Private Magnificence in Rome (c. 1650-1700)
A1 Marechaux, Benoit Andre Fernand
A2 Goulet, Anne-Madeleine
A2 Berti, Michela
AB What were the economic foundations of aristocratic magnificence in the Rome of the Baroque period? With the aim of illuminating the material conditions of what was above all an art of spending well, this article analyses the patrimony of five key figures of Roman patronage in the second half of the seventeenth century: Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, Giovanni Battista Borghese, Flavio Orsini, Gaetano Francesco Caetani and Flavio Chigi. Through examination of their account books, preserved in family archives in Rome, Vatican City and Subiaco, the present contribution examines their substantial, but varied assets and revenues, reconstructs their expenditures, considers the role of the latter in conferring social distinction and exercising seigniorial power, and discusses the necessary recourse to credit, as well as the dangers of debt, in order better to understand both the difficulties and the capacity for action of protagonists whose deployment of their patrimonies was at the heart of spectacular Roman events.
PB Brepols
SN 9782503613123
SN 9782503613130
SN 2565-8166
SN 2565-9510
YR 2024
FD 2024-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112882
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112882
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 abr 2025