Online lecture on Infanta Catalina Micaela
Instituto Cervantes London15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple, London WC2R 3JJ, United Kingdom
Wed 21 Oct · 18:00 · Free
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The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela Online lecture on the life of Infanta Catalina Micaela with the author of her biography, Magdalena S. Sánchez, Professor of Early Modern European History at Gettysburg College. The event will be introduced by Professor Jean Andrews of the University of Nottingham. Synopsis The first full biography of Catalina Micaela, infanta of Spain and duchess of Savoy Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as a duchess. Overlooked by historians and little known today, Catalina was nonetheless a key figure in sixteenth-century Europe. A woman of intelligence, forceful personality, and strong feeling, she energetically and effectively governed her husband’s dukedom during his long absences from Turin on military campaigns. In this widely researched account, Magdalena Sánchez traces Catalina’s life from her childhood to her early death shortly after giving birth to her tenth child. Drawing on thousands of letters Catalina exchanged with her husband, Sánchez paints an intimate portrait of a young Spanish woman adapting to a new husband, a new land, and the demands of governance. Event in English. Lecture organised in collaboration with ARTES - Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group. If you are interested in purchasing the book, follow this link https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300282832/infanta/ and use the code INFAN and you will get a 20% discount (with free UK postage).
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