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The diplomacy of Louis XIV regularly had recourse to familial relations. It was understood that French princesses who married into foreign lands would defend the political interests of their nation of origin and that they would work to reinforce diplomatic alliances.1Accordingly, Louis XIV’s personal reign was punctuated by a series of marriages uniting young ladies of the French court with great Roman nobles. In 1661, Maria Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin and a Frenchwoman by adoption, married Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, a leading member of one of the most powerful Roman families. Maria Mancini’s brother Philippe Julian wed a niece of Madame de Montespan, Diane-Gabrielle de Thianges, in 1670. Diane-Gabrielle’s sister, Louise-Adélaïde, in turn married Luigi Sforza, Duke of Onano and Segni, in 1678.
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See Otto Brunner, Vita nobiliare e cultura europea (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1972);
Isabelle Poutrin and Marie-Karine Schaub, eds., Femmes et pouvoir politique: Les princesses d’Europe (XVe-XVIIIe siècle) (Rosny-sous-Bois: Bréal, 2007).
On the Palazzo Farnese, see Ferdinand-Henri Navenne, Rome et le palais Farnèse pendant les trois derniers siècles (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1923).
On the Orsini family, see Gustavo Brigante Colonna, Gli Orsini (Milan: Ceschina, 1955); and Vincenzo Celletti, Gli Orsini di Bracciano: Glorie, tragedie e fastosità della casa patrizia più interessante della Roma dei secoli XV, XVI e XVII (Rome: Fratelli Palombi Editori, 1963).
On the Lante della Rovere family, see Pio Pecchiai, I Lante (Rome: Alma Roma, 1966), 52–3;
Rita Randolfi, Palazzo Lante in piazza dei Caprettari (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2010).
See Mario Infelise, “Roman Avvisi: Information and Politics in the Seventeenth Century,” in Court and Politics in Papal Rome, ed. Giovanni Signorotto and Maria Antonietta Visceglia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 212–28.
See Maria Antonietta Visceglia, ed., La nobiltà romana in età moderna: Profili istituzionali e pratiche sociali (Rome: Carocci, 2001).
See Carolyn Gianturco, Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682): His Life and Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 18.
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Goulet, AM. (2014). The Princesse des Ursins, Loyal Subject of the King of France and Foreign Princess in Rome. In: Ahrendt, R., Ferraguto, M., Mahiet, D. (eds) Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463272_10
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