Festa della Chinea: tradition and the 'exotic' in Roman festival design - Italy

The Festa della Chinea, which roughly translates as ‘Festival of the Wandering Nag’, was a historic festival held in Rome bi-annually until the late 18th century (1788), in which the viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples was required to pay his homage to the pope. This entailed, among other things, the o...

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Main Author: Temple, Nicholas
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2018
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5896/1/FestadellaChinea_BookChap.docx