On 2 June 1800 Napoleon, at that time still General Bonaparte, made a triumphal entry into Milan, driving out the Austrians, who had ruled Lombardy since 1713. Napoleon enjoyed music, and a gala ...concert in his honor was organized at La Scala for the evening of 4 June. To the extent that the French regime in Milan had any effect on La Scala, it seems to have been beneficial; the number of opera performances increased, and the time of French rule were golden years for ballet and stage design. In March 1801 the contralto Elisabetta Gafforini made the first of many appearances at La Scala. Although she occasionally performed opera seria roles, she had a delightful comic talent that made her perfect for opera buffa. In November 1801 she sang in the premiere of Giuseppe Mosca’s Il Sedicente filosofo, and shortly thereafter an etched portrait of her was published, together with an adulatory sonnet. This production has many fingerprints of French rule in Milan: the verso of the sheet contains a quote from a French author (Voltaire); the sonnet is addressed to “Citizen” Elisabetta Gafforini, a form of address that came into use after the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789; and the publication is dated Anno X, that is, Year Ten of the Republican calendar. In 1815 Rossini wanted to engage Gafforini to play Rosina in the premiere of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, but her asking price was too high, so Rossini turned to Geltrude Righetti-Georgi. Gafforini’s last known performance was at La Fenice in Venice in April 1818. After this the record is silent; it is not even known when or where she died.
Napoléon et l’Espagne Petiteau, Natalie
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez,
04/2008, Letnik:
38, Številka:
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We know how Napoleon viewed the war in Spain as a «fatal knot», but historians have frequently neglected to analyse the ways in which that knot came to be tied. Rereading the sources, including ...official ones, one can grasp his ambition to be sure, but he seems also to have had a relatively clear idea as to the difficulties that had to be faced. At the same time, the accounts of contemporary witnesses reveal the extent to which engagement in this conflict was seen as the Empire’s turning-point, as historians were quick to confirm in exactly the same terms.
Le roi philosophe Dufour, Gérard
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez,
04/2008, Letnik:
38, Številka:
38-1
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To his supporters, Joseph I was the personification of the «philosopher king». Patriots took up the expression, but as a term of derision, claiming that his forte was not philosophy but epicureanism. ...Looking beyond the stoicism which he evinced in the face of adversity, this article analyses the essential traits of that philosophy, that is the ethical principles according to which Joseph, on the Spanish throne, modelled his conduct and sought to behave as a «friend of men», in keeping with the novel that he had published in 1799, Moïna, and it attempts to distinguish the influences (Queen Julie, the Freemasons) that instilled such an attitude in the Emperor’s brother.
History of geology in Egypt Tawadros, Edward
Earth sciences history,
2012, Letnik:
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Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in 1798 carried out the first multidisciplinary exploration mission and formed the Institute of Egypt, the first scientific organization in Egypt. A few ...decades later, the German geographer and ethnographer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896) led another multidisciplinary expedition in the Western Desert of Egypt. Georg Schweinfurth (1836-1925) independently explored various parts of Egypt over a period of more than fifty years and made major contributions in geology, paleontology, and archeology. The establishment of the Geological Survey of Egypt by the British in 1896 was a turning point in the history of geology in Egypt. The pioneering work of the early staff of the Survey established the solid foundation of the geology of Egypt. Progress in our geological ideas in recent years is credited to the advance in technology, the introduction of new exploration methods, and active international cooperation. A few problems have to be overcome before a real progress in our geological ideas takes place in the future.
Both Australia and Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) matured together. At the start of the last century, Upfield emigrated to Australia as that nation was gaining independence and identity. The Gallipoli ...campaign changed both, and both spent the next decades in pursuit of identity, he wandering, Australia finding its own unique place among nations. Arthur W. Upfield lived a life many might envy: unsuccessful student, immigrant (1911), walker, horse breaker and camel driver, soldier, Bushman, f.
Musical Orientalism is just a way to see, or rather to construct, the oriental otherness, or the image of the Orient expressed as an entire system of thought and scholarship. It's the discourse on ...East by the West, that in its modern, global stage, began with the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt in 1798 and coincided with modern cultural French-British imperialism just at the age of Napoleonic enterprise and his regime. Napoleon carefully prepared this Campaign, managed it with dipomatic sagacity, and bore his image out as "un Mahomet d'occident." "La Description de l'Égypte," edited by Edme-François Jomard, was published in Paris, from 1809 to 1826, as the result of that Campaign; among these pages can be found some musical essays by Guillaume André Villoteau, a member of the "savants" group led by Napoleon in Egypt on his flagship called "Orient," who studied "in loco" the ethnomusical heritage. Adapted from Publication Abstract
This essay reconstructs a performance given in Napoleon's presence at the National Theatre in Warsaw on 18 January 1807. That evening the theatre presented the allegorical opera 'Andromeda' (music by ...Józef Elsner, libretto by Ludwik Osinski) in which Perseus (symbolising Napoleon) frees Andromeda, representing Poland, from her chains. The evening ended with a cantata by Elsner and Osinski performed before the backdrop of Jan Bogumil Plersch's transparency, showing Napoleon's head surrounded by a laurel wreath. This evening initiated the Polish cult of Napoleon on the Polish stage. It also provided a theatrical presentation of Polish hopes for independence. Napoleon's presence in Warsaw strengthened the Classical style in art: 'Andromeda' was the first of many works-heroic operas, cantatas, tragedies-over the duchy's lifetime that depicted similar themes of nobility and pathos. Reprinted by permission of Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes
Describes an early attempt to integrate technology, science, and mathematics education during the Napoleonic era in France. Discusses four categories of integration: physical, conceptual, social, and ...political. Explains the significance of historical studies for technology education. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)
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