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FARINELLI AS QUEEN OF THE NIGHT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2005

JANE CLARK
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The popular conception of the eighteenth century as The Age of Reason has perhaps obscured the values cherished by many people at the time. The strength of its ‘legitimist political movements’ is hard for a modern mind to grasp. Even harder is the ‘political fantasy’ of the ‘renewed empire’ prophesied by Virgil. But these ideas were very real to the eighteenth-century mind. To this must be added the sacred nature of the ancient Orders of Chivalry and their origins in the Crusades, as well as their connections with the Templars and ancient Freemasonry. All this must be taken into account when considering Farinelli, his patrons and his colleague Domenico Scarlatti.

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Eighteenth-Century Music , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , September 2005 , pp. 321 - 333
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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