Browsing by Autor "Ezequiel Borgognoni"

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Inmaculada Arias de Saavedra Alías, Esther Jiménez Pablo y Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe-Muñoz (editores). Subir a los altares. Modelos de santidad en la Monarquía Hispánica (S. XVI-XVIII). Granada, Universidad de Granada, 2018. 422 pp. ISBN: 978-84-338-623
(2020) Ezequiel Borgognoni
LAS REINAS IBÉRICAS Y LA DIPLOMACIA BARROCA: UN ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DE LAS REGENCIAS DE LUÍSA DE GUSMÃO Y MARIANA DE AUSTRIA
(Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 2021) Ezequiel Borgognoni
Las regencias de Luisa de Gusmao y Mariana de Austria marcaron un hito fundamental en la historia politica y diplomatica de las monarquias ibericas. Luisa goberno en Portugal entre 1656 y 1662, y Mariana fue regente de Espana entre 1665 y 1675. A lo largo de varios anos, ambas mujeres tuvieron que hacer frente a problematicas comunes. En el escenario internacional, Luisa y Mariana se desempenaron como autenticas reinas diplomaticas interviniendo en los conflictos belicos de su epoca y mediando en la concertacion de treguas que les permitieron construir coaliciones tanto defensivas como ofensivas. En este articulo realizare un analisis comparativo del rol politico y diplomatico de las regentes con la intension de demostrar como ambas reinas contribuyeron a la preservacion de los estados territoriales de sus hijos, los reyes ninos Alfonso VI y Carlos II.
MARIE GIGAULT DE BELLEFONDS, AMBASSADRESS OF FRANCE. GENDER, POWER AND DIPLOMACY AT THE COURT OF CHARLES II OF SPAIN, 1679-1681
(Autonomous University of Madrid, 2020) Ezequiel Borgognoni
In this article, I will analyse the political activity of marquise Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, ambassadress of France at the Madrid court between 1679 and 1681, by reflecting on the different diplomatic strategies implemented by her and her husband in order to gain the favour of the monarchs, particularly of the queen consort Marie-Louise of Orleans. The study of Louis XIV of France’s instructions to his ambassador and the perusal of the letters that the ambassadress sent to her friends in Paris evidence the importance of collaborative work in the marriages among diplomats in seventeenth-century court society. Moreover, our sources allow us to make visible the role of the wives of ambassadors in the pre-modern diplomatic system –a field of study in its beginning stages, but also highly promising. Who was Marie Gigault de Bellefonds? Why was she considered a dangerous individual or, as stated by Saint-Simon, «evil as a snake» at the court? Who were her main adversaries in Madrid? What was she accused of? Why did she and her husband have to leave the embassy in 1681? This research will attempt to answer these and other questions related to the presence of the French ambassadress at the court of Charles II and Marie-Louise of Orleans.
Viaje de princesas y cambio identitario en la España de los Austrias
(University of Navarre, 2019) Ezequiel Borgognoni
This article is focused on the study of the journeys experienced by princesses who came from the Habsburg Empire, Portugal and France to the Hispanic monarchy in order to marry a Catholic king or the crown prince, between the 16th and 17th centuries. The princesses traveled long distances, crossed rivers, mountain passes and, on sea voyages, they ventured to the effects of possible storms and shipwrecks. But the journeys experienced by princesses did not only involve traveling a physical distance. At the border, foreign princesses had to renounce their own identity to become a consort queen of the Spanish monarchy. Therefore, after analyzing the particularities of these crossings in their different phases, we will analyze the scope and limitations of this metamorphosis and identity change process after the culmination of the trip and once the entrance to the court occurred.