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23
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres,
ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 1, p. 381.
24
Ibid., p. 392.
25
Mongrédien,
Une aventurière au grand siècle,
p. 163.
26
Ibid., p. 165.
27
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné,
Correspondance,
ed. Roger Duchêne (Paris: Gallimard, 1973-1978 ), vol. 3, p. 161.
28
John Evelyn,
Diary and Correspondence
(London: H. Colburn, 1850), vol. 2, p. 210.
CHAPTER 8 MADRID
1
Marie Mancini,
The Truth in Its Own Light, or: The Genuine Memoirs of M. Mancini, Constabless Colonna
, in Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini,
Memoirs
, ed. and trans. Sarah Nelson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 161.
2
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), pp. 343–344.
3
Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d'Aulnoy,
Relation du voyage d'Espagne
, ed. Maria Seguin (Paris: Desjonquères, 2005), p. 233.
4
Ibid., pp. 215–216.
5
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated June 26, 1675.
6
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, pp. 350–351.
7
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 162.
8
Colonna Archive, letter dated October 2, 1674.
9
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 368.
10
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 162.
11
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 5, 1675.
12
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 26, 1675.
13
Colonna Archive, letter dated June 12, 1675. Translated by Giovanna Suhl and published in Marie Mancini,
La Vérité dans son jour
, ed. Patricia F. Cholakian and Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998), p. 97.
14
Ibid.
15
Colonna Archive, letter dated August 7, 1675. Translated by Giovanna Suhl and published in Mancini,
La Vérité dans son jour
, p. 100.
16
Hortense Mancini,
Memoirs
, in Nelson,
Memoirs
, p. 27.
17
Anonymous,
Mémoires de M.L.P.M.M. Colonne, G. connétable du royaume de Naples
, published as Marie Mancini,
Cendre et poussière
, ed. Maurice Lever (Paris: Le Comptoir, 1997), p. 33.
18
Ibid., pp. 33–34.
19
Ibid., p. 47.
20
Ibid., p. 49.
21
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
pp. 83–84.
22
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 4, 1677.
23
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 92.
24
Ibid., p. 92.
25
Ibid., pp. 162–163.
26
Colonna Archive, letter dated September 13, 1677.
27
Ibid., letter dated March 19, 1677.
28
Ibid., letter dated August 2, 1677.
29
Ibid., letter dated March 17, 1677.
30
Claude Dulong,
Marie Mancini, la première passion de Louis XIV
(Paris: Perrin, 1993), p. 275.
CHAPTER 9 DIVORCE
1
Toivo Rosvall,
The Mazarine Legacy: The Life of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin
(New York: Viking, 1966), p. 204.
2
Ibid., p. 205.
3
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné,
Correspondance
, ed. Roger Duchêne (Paris: Gallimard, 1973–1976)
,
vol. 3, p. 665.
4
Claude Erard,
Plaidoyé touchant la demande faite par monsieur le duc de Mazarin pour obliger madame la duchesse de Mazarin son epouse de revenir avec luy, après une longue absence, & de quitter l'Angleterre où elle est présentement
(Toulouse: J. J. Boude, 1690), pp. 7, 18.
5
Ibid., pp. 17–18.
6
Ibid., p. 19.
7
Charles de Saint-Evremond, “Factum pour Madame la Duchesse Mazarin, contre Monsieur le Duc Mazarin son mari,” in
Oeuvres choisies
, ed. A. C. Gidel (Paris: Garnier, 1867), pp. 17, 20.
8
Rosvall,
The Mazarine Legacy
, p. 206.
9
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres
, ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 2, pp. 147–148.
10
Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 155–156.
11
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), p. 398.
12
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated February 1679.
13
Ibid.
14
Ibid., letter dated January 6, 1679.
15
An “agnus dei” is a circular medal made of wax, imprinted with the figure of a lamb and blessed by the pope. Colonna Archive, letter dated March 18, 1679.
16
Ibid., letter dated January 21, 1679.
17
Madame de Villars,
Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Villars, Ambassadrice en Espagne, dans le temps du mariage de Charles II Roi d'Espagne
(Paris: Michel Lambert, 1759), p. 70.
18
Ibid., p. 67.
19
Perey,
Une princesse romaine,
p. 418.
20
Ibid., pp. 423–424.
21
Colonna Archive, letter dated November 18, 1680.
22
Ibid., letter dated December 24, 1680.
23
Ibid., letter dated December 4, 1680.
24
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy,
Memoirs of the Court of Spain
(London: Horn, Saunders and Bennet, 1692)
,
vol. 2, pp. 173–174.
25
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 436.
26
Claude Dulong,
Marie Mancini, la première passion de Louis XIV
(Paris: Perrin, 1993), p. 313.
27
Ibid., pp. 317–318.
28
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 466.
29
Ibid., p. 468.
30
Mercure historique et politique
(La Haye: Henry Van Dulderen, 1689), vol. 6, p. 609.
31
Dulong,
Marie Mancini
, p. 326.
CHAPTER 10 “DUST AND ASHES”
1
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres
, ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 2, p. 203.
2
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated July 26, 1692.
3
Saint-Evremond,
Lettres,
vol. 2, pp. 235–236.
4
Ibid., p. 251.
5
Ibid., p. 281.
6
Ibid., p. 301.
7
Mercure historique et politique
, vol. 27 (1699), p. 108.
8
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 26, 1689.
9
Ibid., letter dated August 1692.
10
Ibid., letter dated June 17, 1693.
11
Ibid., letter dated simply “Paris, 1704.”
12
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), p. 521.
13
Ibid., p. 522.
14
It is not known with certainty what became of the Marie Mancini pearl necklace. It is rumored to have been reacquired in the late twentieth century by the Colonna family.
15
Susan Shifrin, ed.,
Re-framing Representations of Women
(Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), p. 200.
INDEX
Accaioli, Filippo
Adultery
Aix
Albani, Francesco
Alcazar fortress (Segovia)
Alexander VII (Pope)
Alicidiane
(Molière)
Alphonse VI
Alsace
Altieri (Cardinal)
Amadis of Gaul
Anne (Queen).
See also
Queen regent (France)
Anne of Sussex.
See
Sussex, Countess of
Antwerp/Anvers
Ariosto
Arnoux, Monsieur
Art
beauties series (portraits)
mutilation of Mazarin art collection
paintings and statuary in palazzo Colonna
See also
Mancini, Hortense: portraits of: Mancini, Marie: portraits of
Ascanio (Reverend Father)
Astell, Mary
Astorga, Marquis of
Astrology
Astronomy
Auto-da-fé
Avenay convent
Avvisi
Ballet and opera.
See also
Dance; Theatre
Bandits
Barberini, Antonio (Cardinal)
Barillon, Paul de
Bartet (informant)
Basset card game.
See also
Gambling
Basset Table, The
(Centlivre)
Behn, Aphra
Belbeuf, Jacques
Bellinzani, Madame
Benedetti, Elpidio
Benserade, Isaac de
Berenice
(Racine)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Bisexuality.
See also
Mancini, Hortense: sexual attraction for other women
Blackmail
Boniel (chaplain)
Borgomanero.
See
D'Este, Carlo Emanuele, Marquis of Borgomanero
Bouillon, Duchess of.
See also
Mancini, Marianne
Brandenburg
Brittany
Brouage
Brussels, convent in
Bubonic plague
counterfeit bills of health for
Cabrera, Don Juan de, Admiral of Castile
Caesarea (Archbishop)
Campo Marzio, convent in
Carlos II
death of
remarriage of
Carnival season.
See also under
Rome
Castille, Admiral of.
See
Cabrera, Don Juan de, Admiral of Castile
Castor and Pollux
Catherine of Braganza
Catholicism.
See also
Religion: Protestants vs. Catholics; Vatican
Cavagnino (musician)
Cavoye, Marquis de
Centlivre, Susanna
Cesti (composer)
Chambéry
castle at
provincial nobility in
Chapelain (writer)
Charles de Lorraine (Prince)
Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy
death of
and Marie
son of
Charles I
Charles II
brother of(
see also
James II)
conspiracy to assassinate
death of
and Louis XIV
marriage of
mistresses/children of
as pleasure king
sister of
supplying money for Hortense
tolerance of
withdrawing affection for Hortense(
see also
Mancini, Hortense: as mistress of Charles II)
Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Chigi, Fabio.
See also
Alexander VII (Pope)
Chigi, Flavio
Childbirth, deaths in
China
Christina (Queen of Sweden)
Church of the College of Four Nations
Cibo (Cardinal)
Chinea
(social ritual)
Civitavecchia, Italy
Claude Lorrain
Clement IX (Pope)
Clement X (Pope)
Clothing.
See also
Lace
Coffists
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
Colbert, Nicolas
Coleman, Edward
Cologne
Colonna, Carlo
Colonna, Don Ferdinando
Colonna, Filippo
death of
remarriage of
Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio
agents/spies of
as art/theatre patron
death of
family in Madrid
half brother of
health of
and Hortense
letters to Louis XIV
as loving Marie
in Madrid
and Marie's escape from Rome (
see also
Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio: agents/spies of)
and Marie's health
mistresses/children of (
see also
Mancini, Marie: children of)
sister of
sponsoring spectacles
as Viceroy of Aragon
as violent
wedding gift to Marie by
will of
Colonna, Marcantonio (military hero)
Colonna, Marcantonio (son of Marie and Lorenzo)
Concerts
Confidence men
Conti, Armand de (Prince)
Convent of the Visitation (Paris)
Convent of the Visitation (Turin)
Convents.
See also individual convents
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
(Fontenelle)
Coresi, Antonia and Nicolo
Corneille, Pierre
Courbeville (squire)
incarcerated in Civitavecchia
Courcelles, Marie-Sidonie de
Coureuse
(loose woman)

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