You are probably asking now: Who is Margherita Durastanti? Well, as I write my doctoral thesis on her, you will have to wait a while for a detailed answer of mine. Once the thesis is done, you will see her life unfold in stories and plays. In the meantime, let’s discover the intellectual world, in which Durastanti performed and discussed politics, science and the arts above all…
You are invited to contribute with an essay or some thoughts on her era. Here comes a list of personalities that deserve to be remembered from the epoch around around 1700:
Actors and singers:
Diamante Maria Scarabelli, colleague of Durastanti
Elena Balletti Riccoboni, actor and poet
Anastasia Robinson, another colleague of Durastanti
AND MANY MANY MORE
Dancers:
Marie Sallé and colleagues
Composers:
Attilio Ariosti
Johann David Heinichen
Fortunato Chelleri
AND MANY MANY MORE
Visual Arts:
Pierre Crozat, art collector and dealer
Rosalba Carriera
Godfrey Kneller
AND MANY MANY MORE
Science:
Clelia Grillo Borromeo, women scientist and mathematician
Luigi Ferdinando Marsili AND MANY MORE
Medicine:
Bernadino Ramazzini
Translators, writers and dramatists:
Antonio Schinella, Italian translator
Francesco Scipione, dramatist from Verona
Teresa Grillo AND MANY MORE
AND ALL POLITICIANS AND ARISTOCRATS OF THE ERA
Margherita Durastanti and her era 