Summary: Rome and Spain maintained very close ties from the times of the Catholic Monarchs to the dawn of the contemporary era. The city was the seat of the head of the Church, and the Spanish Monarchy – which made militant Catholicism the centrepiece of its political theology, especially during the Habsburg rule – sorely needed papal approval. This indissoluble bond between the Spanish Monarchy and the Papacy during the Modern Age spurred intense diplomatic activity. Spain’s presence in the city progressively increased from the end of the fifteenth century onwards and its subjects’ representative needs gave rise to a veritable Spanish Rome, whose main landmarks were the palazzo of the Spanish Embassy and the national churches of the Aragonese and Castillian communities, Santa Maria di Monserrato and San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. In this book González Tornel studies one of the main features of Spain’s rich and many-sided presence in Rome: festivities. The rituals and celebrations staged by Spaniards in the city helped unite the community and, above all, played a key role in the Crown’s propaganda efforts. Canonisations, triumphal entries, celebrations of political achievements, religious feasts and royal funerals had an equal or greater part in boosting Spain’s presence than the people who participated in them and the places that hosted them. Festivities were crucial to understanding power and Church-state relations during the Modern Age, and those promoted by the Spanish Monarchy in Rome are essential to explaining both realities.

Contents: I. Roma y España - La fiesta en Roma: entre el pasado imperial y la religión católica - Roma, teatro de la política española. II. Los espacios de la nación española en Roma - Las iglesias nacionales de San Giacomo degli Spagnoli y Santa Maria di Monserrato - El palacio de la Embajada de España - Las "otras" fundaciones españolas - Coda: la religiosidad nacional como imagen de la Monarquía Hispánica. III. La fiesta política - Monarquía y representación - Clímax habsbúrgico en 1637: las fiestas por la elección de Fernando III como rey de Romanos - El siglo de los Austrias - Un ritual excepcional: la Chinea - La difícil sucesión de Carlos II - Tibieza festiva en el siglo de los Borbones. IV. La fiesta religiosa - La fiesta de la Resurrección - Las canonizaciones - Los inicios de una fiesta: san Diego de Alcalá (1588) y san Raimundo de Peñafort (1601) - El éxito de la diplomacia española: san Isidro Agrícola, san Ignacio de Loyola, san Francisco Javier y santa Teresa de Jesús (1622); santa Isabel de Portugal (1625) - La explosión del arte efímero y la dimensión urbana de las canonizaciones: santo Tomás de Villanueva (1658) - Repetición y hastío: san Pedro de Alcántara (1669); san Francisco de Borja, san Luis Beltrán y santa Rosa de Lima (1671); san Juan de Sahagún, san Juan de Dios y san Pascual Bailón (1690) - El final de una época: santo Toribio de Lima, san Juan de la Cruz y san Francisco Solano (1726); san Pedro Regalado (1746); san José de Calasanz (1767). V. Los funerales regios - El legado de Carlos V en la configuración del ritual funerario - Felipe III (1621) - Felipe IV (1665) - Carlos II (1700) - Luis I (1724) - Felipe V (1746) - Fernando VI (1759) - Carlos III (1789) - A modo de telón: la muerte de la fiesta. Principales fiestas tratadas y su aparato iconográfico - Relaciones festivas seleccionadas - Bibliografía citada - Índice onomástico - Índice topográfico de Roma.

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