La música en la formación de una identidad nobiliaria renacentista entre España e Italiala corte valenciana de Fernando de Aragón, Duque de Calabria (1488-1550)

Abstract

TheValencian Courto f Ferdinand of Aragon, Duke of Calabria (1526-1550), stands out in the context of the other Spanish courts, due to the cultural syncretism and the rare ductility with which this court managed to amalgamate and blend different cultural worlds: the Neapolitan-Aragonese, the autochthonous-Valencian and the Christian-Erasmian. Gathering the pieces of a puzzle scattered throughout numerous sources of different types, this work investigates the triangular dynamics between music, identity construction processes and literary and musical patronage. The dominant idea to be taken from this investigation is that music is not only an elitist practice, a form of evasion or even the art of the Muses, but also a medium of communication subject to power-play and perfectly integrated in the courtly social dynamics to the point of conditioning and impacton the noble identity construction processes.