Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
The unpublished travel accounts of Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony/Poland, a disabled tourist and pilgrim on a 'grand cure' in Italy in 1738-40, and related documentation and research by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
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Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony/Poland (1722-63) Comte de Lusace Grand Tour Joseph Anton Gabaleon von Wackerbarth-Salmour Misc. Archival or Published Vienna 1740 Joseph Anton Gabaleon von Wackerbarth-Salmour (1685-1761) Empress Wilhelmine Amalie Venice 1740 Maria Amalia (1724-60) Queen of Naples Naples 1738 Rome 1739 Maureen Cassidy-Geiger Comte de Lusace / Prince Friedrich Christian (1722-63) Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Adam Manyoki Rosalba Carriera Rome 1738 Thomas Villiers Earl of Clarendon Giovanni Tribuzio
7 August 2023
The Prince was welcomed to the Capitoline on 12 Dec. 1738 by Alessandro Gregorio Capponi, who likely commissioned and presented this guidebook. According to Francesco Paolo Arata, the...
From the Archivio di Stato, Naples, courtesy of Prof. John Moore
7 August 2023
Naples, Archivio di Stato, Affari esteri Roma [hereafter Naples, AS, AER], 1243, letter from Rome of Giovanni Porta [to Montealegre] dated 14 Apr. 1739. Sua...
Konrad Niemira: Augustyn Mirys: new findings and hypotheses (2019)
12 June 2023
konrad-niemira-on-augustyn-mirys-modus-journal-xix-2019
11 June 2023
Nr. 51. June 25, 1740, p. 586: “Mittwoch Nach-mittag zwischen 5. und 6. Uhr langete all’incognito der Königl. Polnische und Chur-Sächsische Prinz mit seinem ganzen Gefolg aus...