Morto il re viva il re: le esequie di Filippo IV e la cerimonialità funeraria nella Sicilia dell’età moderna (original) (raw)
Obiettivo di questo saggio è l’analisi della cerimonialità con la quale si partecipa al popolo siciliano la morte del proprio sovrano nel Seicento. Ho utilizzato, per ricostruire i contesti cerimoniali e sociali, la documentazione bibliografica e archivistica relativa ai funerali del re Filippo IV ai quali si collega il giuramento di fedeltà al suo erede legittimo Carlo. Una rappresentazione complessa, fastosa e lugubre nello stesso tempo, nella quale si mescolano arcaiche ritualità del pianto rituale con l’elaborazione di un cerimoniale innovativo il cui punto focale è costituito dall’esposizione dell’effige del sovrano, sotto forma di statua, inserita all’interno di una struttura architettonica effimera nella quale statue, fregi e cartigli veicolano messaggi esoterici complessi e articolati.
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