{"title":"Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid","authors":"J. Escobar","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2227533","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I n his Idea of a Christian Prince, Represented in One Hundred Emblems, a book originally published in , the political theorist and diplomat Diego Saavedra Fajardo offers a lengthy description of the court as an institution. Focusing on the palace as its representative center, Saavedra equates the court with a musical instrument. The corresponding emblem features a crowned harp set before a flat landscape (fig. ). A Latin inscription reads Maiora minoribvs consonant bespeaking a challenge Saavedra sets forth that a Prince master the instrument so that he can play it well:","PeriodicalId":37034,"journal":{"name":"Court Historian","volume":"28 1","pages":"175 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Court Historian","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2227533","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I n his Idea of a Christian Prince, Represented in One Hundred Emblems, a book originally published in , the political theorist and diplomat Diego Saavedra Fajardo offers a lengthy description of the court as an institution. Focusing on the palace as its representative center, Saavedra equates the court with a musical instrument. The corresponding emblem features a crowned harp set before a flat landscape (fig. ). A Latin inscription reads Maiora minoribvs consonant bespeaking a challenge Saavedra sets forth that a Prince master the instrument so that he can play it well: