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The Saracen Joust in Piazza Navona (part 2)
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article we analyzed the rules of the Saracen Joust in the seventeenth century. In this second part, we discover the complex dramaturgy of…
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The Saracen Joust in Piazza Navona (part 1)
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini With the typical unscrupulousness of the Popes of the time, in 1628, Urban VIII ordained his nephew as cardinal when he was just twenty. In a short time,…
04/02/2016
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