List of Illustrations     ix
List of Music Examples     xiii
List of Abbreviations     xv
Preface: “The Rome That No One Cares to Write About”     xvii

Introduction     3

1 - La contesa (1631): A Chivalric Spectacle for a Barberini Client     7
2 - The Prince’s Hat ossia Il Berrettino di Pietro     55
3 - The Artistic Patronage of the Barberini and the Galileo Affair     89
4 - Le pretensioni del Tebro e del Po: Ferrara Entertains Don Taddeo Barberini     103
5 - La maschera trionfante: Don Taddeo Barberini Entertains His Brother    Cardinal Antonio     41
6 - Orpheus in a New Key: The Barberini Flight to France and the Rossi–Buti L’Orfeo     153      
7 - Barberini Redux: The Return to Rome and the Pamphilj Wedding     191
8 - Barberini Triumphans: Roman Entertainments for Queen Christina of Sweden     207      
9 - “Thy hand, great Anarch . . .“: Music and Spectacle in Barberini Funerals 1644–80     245
      
Bibliography     287
Index     297