Coming seminar on sound itineraries about French monarchy in the 18th century Rome
We will welcome Dr. Michela Berti with the FonUrMed Autumn Seminar on 30 and 31 October. Her research will bring the sound itineraries of the French monarchy in the modern Rome, with relegious ceremonies and nobility magnificence.
24 de october de 2025
Devozione, identità e rappresentazione. Itinerari sonori della monarchia francese nella Roma moderna tra cerimonie straordinarie e magnificenza nobiliare
The seminar will explore how music became a strategic tool of visibility, identity and representation for the Bourbon monarchy of the 18th century Rome, using the Vaini family and the San Luigi dei Francesi musical activity as a starting point.
The seminar is a part of the Monarchy Phonospheres Cycle. From the Old Regime to Liberalism. Including: ‘The ceremony universe of Liberalism’ and ‘Sound images of the French monarchy’.
DATES AND LOCATION
Thursday 30, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- French-aligned nobility sponsorship in the 18th century Rome: the Vaini family case.
Friday 31, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Music at the Roman Church of San Luigi dei Fancesi during the 18th Century as a French Monarchy Propaganda Resource.
Both sessions will take place in hybrid format at the Department of French and Italian Philology Boardroom (Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 32, València)
More information and inscriptions:
andrea.bombi@uv.es | ferran.escriva-llorca@uv.es
About FonUrMed
The Sound cities. Mediterranean Urban Phonospheres (1500-1900) (FonUrMed) project continues the research of the Emergent Group ‘Sound City. Music, Sound and Noise (1609-1813)’ [CIGE/2021/165] has reached important results in its area: the study from the urban musicology perspective, analysed how urban music and culture in València evolved between the morisco expulsion in 1609 and the absolutism restoration in 1813 with Fernando VII.
Research Project: Sound cities. Mediterranean Urban Phonospheres (1500-1900) (FonUrMed)