Dubrovnik annals, No. 26, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/94kl4cl0em
Questa Reppublica non si lassa avvanzare d’alcuno nell’osservanza et divotione: Congratulations and Condolences in the Ragusan Diplomacy towards Papal Rome
Nikša Varezić
; University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
This article discusses a specific level of relations between the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and papal Rome. Apart from the official letters exchanged by the Ragusan government with eminent curial officials and the pope regarding many political and economic issues during the seventeenth century, there was also correspondence of less formal nature concerning private occasions of curial dignitaries, most often the pope and his family members. Such events were good opportunities to deepen their relationship or, at least, to show that they might have been even closer and more personal given that Baroque rhetoric supported such a discourse. This occasional correspondence between Ragusa and Rome overlapped with the ceremonial practices of papal Rome. The diplomatic exchange here analysed encompasses the end of Barberini’s pontificate (after the death of Urban VIII) and those of Innocent X Odescalchi and Alexander VII Chigi. Repetitiveness in referring to original formulations seeks to convey the true style and purpose of the epistolary skills that the Ragusan diplomatic service used very thoughtfully in its relations with papal Rome.
Keywords
diplomatic correspondence; early modern diplomacy; Republic of Ragusa; papal Rome; Barberini family
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288136
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Publication date:
1.12.2022.
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