Alla corte del governatore. Feste, riti e cerimonie a Milano tra XVI e XVIII secolo

[Autom. eng. transl.] The volume, starting from the transcription of a manuscript preserved in the Ambrosian Library (Historical Diary of 1716, 1717, 1718 of His Highness's Government, Prince of Lewenstein of Don Carlo Celidonio, Court of the Court), highlights the importance of ceremonial sources for the study of social and political dynamics in Milan between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructed the function of court master of ceremonies from the beginning of the Spanish age up to the age of reforms, the study highlights the overlap with this figure of some secretaries of the secret chancellery who, acting as connecting elements between the offices of the state and the members of the governatorial court, acquitted between 1660 and 1710 also to ceremonial functions. From the study it emerges how the governor's court unfolded well beyond the space of the royal ducal palace which was its institutional seat, disintegrated and then reconstructed around the figure of the representative of the sovereign whenever there were occasions in which the political-administrative apparatus of the state "made court" around the governor, confirming the interpenetration of the court and was detected by the most recent historiography. The volume also contains the complete transcription of the Celidonius manuscript by Cusani and in the appendix the transcription of the List of noble Milanese families admitted to the court of Archduke Ferdinand in 1775