Cristina di Svezia eroina nella Historia di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_9675
dc.contributor.author	Fogelberg Rota Stefano
dc.title	Cristina di Svezia eroina nella Historia di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato del 1656
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato’s Historia (1656) is not only arguably the first biography of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626‑1689) but it also provides a model for the interpretation of her life that influenced biographers over three centuries. This essay investigates Gualdo’s rhetorical strategies and their connection with Christina’s propagandistic aims. Focus is devoted to the author’s conjoint explanation of her abdication and conversion to Catholicism according to which the first is the result of the second; an interpretation that forgoes other reasons for her renunciation of the throne and that would be largely adopted by later biographers.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni Veneti. Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-11-22
dc.dateAccepted	2022-01-25
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-627-5/cristina-di-svezia-eroina-nella-historia-di-galeaz/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-627-5/003
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8941
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9530
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-658-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-627-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Biography
dc.subject	Early modern historiography
dc.subject	Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato
dc.subject	Heroic virtue
dc.subject	Queen Christina of Sweden

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Cristina di Svezia eroina nella Historia di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato del 1656

Stefano Fogelberg Rota Södertörn University, Sweden

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Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato’s Historia (1656) is not only arguably the first biography of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626‑1689) but it also provides a model for the interpretation of her life that influenced biographers over three centuries. This essay investigates Gualdo’s rhetorical strategies and their connection with Christina’s propagandistic aims. Focus is devoted to the author’s conjoint explanation of her abdication and conversion to Catholicism according to which the first is the result of the second; an interpretation that forgoes other reasons for her renunciation of the throne and that would be largely adopted by later biographers.

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Nov. 22, 2022

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Keywords: Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato • Early modern historiography • Biography • Queen Christina of Sweden • Heroic virtue

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