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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… both of her husbands, the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale (c. 1724-1782), actually her mother’s choice, and the singer and music master to her daughter Gabriele Piozzi (1740-1809), were self-made men, though of different social standing. For … as Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney , who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at … price for her perceived mésalliance exacted: ostracized by her old circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social …
Bluestockings | Commerce | Friendship | Italy | Literature | Politics
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… notably in his preface to Prometheus Unbound (‘Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age,’ ( Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, …
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… for various forms of sociability, since they were supplemented with meals and discussions with non-academicians. Musical performances were equally on the menu. The festivities contributed to making Arcadia part of the ‘practices of … evening. And this is quite apart from the luncheon […] during which, Silveno performed French verses set to pastoral music. 16 The association of convivial pleasures, such as the meal, and literary activities, such as poetry recitation, …
Academies | France | Italy | Literature
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… 60s and 70s abroad, is one such example. His rented apartments in Naples were a fashionable place to enjoy the latest in music, art and fencing, as depicted in Pietro Fabris’s two paintings.John Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish …
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