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Benedetto Pamphilj in Bologna (1690–3): Documents on his Patronage of Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2020

Huub van der Linden*
Affiliation:
University College Roosevelt, Middelburg, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Between 1690 and 1693 Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj (1653–1730) held the office of Cardinal-Legate of Bologna. Although he is well known as a patron of music in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome, his time in Bologna has received virtually no attention. This article provides an extensive overview of these years on the basis of a large body of previously unpublished documents. Three appendices provide transcriptions of 74 documents from the cardinal's financial administration, 44 excerpts from a Bolognese institutional diary and a chronology of events involving the cardinal.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 2016 The Royal Musical Association
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Figure 1. Detail of Filippo De Gnudi, Disegno dell'alma città di Bologna (1702), showing Piazza Maggiore with the Palazzo Comunale (the Cardinal-Legate's apartments were situated around the lower courtyard with the garden and well), San Petronio and directly in front of it the Palazzo del Podestà.

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Figures 2–3. Fabio da Bologna, harpsichord, 1691, signed ‘P. FABY DE BONONIA ORD: MIN: OBS: OPVS’ and dated ‘ANNO DOMINI M.D.C.L.XXXX1′. Philharmonie de Paris, Musée de la Musique, inv. E. 912.3.1.

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