Coreografare l’identità. La danza alla corte aragonese di Napoli (1442–1502)

Abstract

The identity construction of the Aragonese in 15th-century Naples is an unusual topic in current musicological and choreological studies, yet it holds immense importance for dance and music. The pages dedicated to the formation of the Neapolitan territory between the center and the periphery, the description of palace spaces, and musical iconography, among many other aspects, help the reader understand how the Aragonese imposed and changed their identity in a foreign and not always hospitable territory.

The Aragonese lend themselves to be the subject of a polyphonic history, aimed at analyzing idiomatic and choreographic varieties and the different perspectives of men and women, Aragonese and Neapolitans, contemporaries and historians.

The careful reading of the traces in the manuscript of Cervera, the only 15th-century dance codex on the Iberian Peninsula, highlights the choreographic language of dancing in the Spanish style.