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- Title
UNA REPUBBLICA TRA DUE RE. LA VISITA A LUCCA DEL PRETENDENTE STUART NELLE SETTIMANE DELL'ATTERBURY PLOT.
- Authors
Sabbatini, Renzo
- Abstract
In the summer of 1722 Clementina Sobieska went to take the waters at Bagni di Lucca. A few weeks later, she was joined by her husband, James III Stuart, pretender to the English throne. The alleged reason for his trip was to acknowledge the warm welcome Clementina had received; the actual one was to get closer to the port of Genoa and be ready to sail should the Atterbury plot create the conditions for a Stuart restoration. Using hitherto overlooked archival evidence, I reconstruct the Pretender's Lucchese stay, with respect to episodes of court life (such as the performance of the royal touch); to the political debate that the event sparks off among the ruling class of the Republic on relations with king George I; and, most importantly, to the international picture painted by the reactions of James's inner circle to news reports of the 'troubles' in England -- which at first raised the Pretender's hopes -- and later of the exposure of the Jacobite conspiracy, whose main actors were arrested. In the very same days, James issued a Declaration, clandestinely printed and dated from Lucca, which was to be distributed in England and to evoke comment in the major European courts.
- Subjects
LUCCA (Italy); JAMES, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766; GEORGE I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727; BRITISH kings &; rulers; BRITISH monarchy; HISTORY
- Publication
Mediterranea - Ricerche Storiche, 2018, Issue 42, p95
- ISSN
1824-3010
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19229/1828-230X/4262018