Study Conference: Francesco Maria Ruspoli and his world – 10th Anniversary International Competition
As part of the initiatives celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli International Competition, the Santa Giacinta Marescotti Studies and Research Center of Vignanello dedicates a study meeting to Francesco Maria Ruspoli, née Marescotti (Vignanello 1672 – Rome 1731), first Prince of Cerveteri and sixth Count of Vignanello. He was a key figure in Rome, a capital of European culture in the early eighteenth century, a patron of the Accademia di Arcadia and of great names in music. This study meeting is held at a site of high symbolic value, the Ruspoli Castle in Vignanello, which was Francesco Maria’s birthplace, at the top of the historic village that owes its modern urban structure to him. It was also the cradle of Saint Giacinta Marescotti, beatified during Francesco Maria’s lifetime and later proclaimed a saint. The Roman nobleman’s patronage activity has garnered international interest in historical studies for hosting the young Handel, repaid with numerous works composed for him or under his protection. This line of study has been extensively explored and perhaps exhausted, as shown by the recent publication of Ursula Kirkendale’s volume, Georg Friedrich Händel, Francesco Maria Ruspoli e Roma, LIM, 2017. However, despite the great international development of historical-musical studies on Francesco Maria, and partly historical-artistic ones, the same has not occurred with respect to other disciplinary areas. This study meeting therefore aims to contribute to a greater and broader understanding of Francesco Maria’s personality and interests, which would allow for a fruitful focus on his complex role in the political, economic, cultural, and religious life of the time, in addition to more adequately contextualizing his patronage activity, whose centrality and relevance is now an undisputed fact.
Scientific Committee: Álvaro Torrente Sánchez-Guisande, Dinko Fabris, Giorgio Monari
Scientific Coordination: Giorgio Monari
Organizational Coordination: Elisa Fochetti
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Friday, October 12, 2018
Institutional Greetings
3:00 PM Federico Grattarola (Mayor of Vignanello)
Giada Ruspoli (Honorary President of the Santa Giacinta Marescotti Studies and Research Center)
Silvestro Fochetti (President of the Santa Giacinta Marescotti Studies and Research Center)
Session I – Francesco Maria Ruspoli and his contemporaries
Chaired by Dinko Fabris (Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella di Napoli, Università di Potenza)
3:30 PM Giorgio Felini (Viterbo), Ruspoli Portraits of the Eighteenth Century in Vignanello Castle: aulic tones and domestic flavors
4:15 PM Break
4:30 PM Aneta Markuszewska (University of Warsaw), “Rome cet année ne manquera pas de divertissemens”. Letters from Maria Casimira Sobieska from Rome to her son Jacopo Sobieski
Teresa Chirico (Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma), «Un nobilissimo teatro». Oratorio scenic setups: the commissions of Francesco Maria Ruspoli and Pietro Ottoboni between 1690 and 1713
5:30 PM Break
5:45 PM Gaetano Platania (Università della Tuscia), The journey of Monsignor Galeazzo Marescotti nuncio to Warsaw and the meeting with the court
Alessandro Boccolini (Università della Tuscia), Papal politics and the interregnum in the Rzeczpospolita of 1668: Monsignor Galeazzo Marescotti, the Pope’s nuncio
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
Session II – Francesco Maria Ruspoli and culture in Rome
Chaired by Aneta Markuszewska
10:00 AM Eugenio Ragni (Accademia dell’Arcadia), The Arcadia in the years of Francesco Maria Ruspoli
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM Nadia Amendola (Rome), Poetry for music dedicated to Francesco Maria Ruspoli, «protector» of «the labors of men of letters»
Giacomo Gibertoni (Modena), «Oh del Bifronte Colle»: an encomiastic song by Filippo Leers for Francesco Maria Ruspoli
Giorgio Monari (Sapienza Università di Roma), Francesco Maria Ruspoli and the Society of Jesus
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Session III – Francesco Maria Ruspoli in Vignanello
Chaired by Giorgio Monari
3:00 PM Luciano Osbat (Centro Diocesano di Documentazione di Viterbo), Cult and beatification of Giacinta Marescotti in the time of Francesco Maria Ruspoli
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM Maria Celeste Cola (Sapienza Università di Roma), The great director of Vignanello. Francesco Corallo and Francesco Maria Ruspoli (1704-1707)
Elisa Fochetti (Vignanello), Francesco Maria Ruspoli and the urbanization of Vignanello
5:00 PM Break
5:30 PM Warren Kirkendale (emeritus Università di Ratisbona), speech on the occasion of the conferment of the career recognition for musicological studies to Ursula and Warren Kirkendale
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Scientific Committee: Álvaro Torrente, Dinko Fabris, Giorgio Monari
