Society, Culture And Opera in Florence, 1814-1830
Subtitle: Dilettantes in an 'Earthly Paradise'
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780754634515
Subjects: Opera; Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Italy; Florence; Music; Music/Songbooks; Westmorland, John Fane,; History & Criticism - General; France; Genres & Styles - Opera; Earl of,; 1784-1859; 19th century
First sentence: In 1814 the Granduchy of Tuscany was restored to its former rulers, the Habsburg-Lothringen ('Absburgo-Lorena' in Italian) branch of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, and life then began anew as if the previous decade and a half under French rule had not occurred.