Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina

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Maria Teresa, around 1750

Maria Teresa Cybo (born June 29, 1725 , † December 25, 1790 ) was Duchess of Massa and Carrara .

She was born in Novellara (today Emilia-Romagna ) as the eldest child and sole heir to Duke Alderano Cybo of Massa and Carrara and his wife Ricciarda Gonzaga , Countess of Novellara. Her father died on August 18, 1731. The duchy was initially under the reign of her mother, and when she came of age, she took over the rule herself in 1744.

Domination

She introduced administrative reforms in the spirit of Josephinism , which stimulated the economy. Among other things, she was responsible for the construction of the Via Vandelli as the central road connection for the duchy and had a hospital built in Massa .

It is mentioned several times in cultural travel guides to Tuscany. In 1769 she founded the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara . Her adviser, the sculptor Giovanni Domenico Olivieri, had initiated the establishment of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando at the Spanish court in Madrid and Maria Teresa proposed the establishment of an art academy in Carrara.

Edict on the quarries

The ownership of the marble quarries in Carrara and Massa was handed over to the local municipalities (vicinanze) in an edict issued in 1746; the operators had to pay the municipalities a rent. This was in fact still valid in the 20th century, which was actually counteracted by the operators because the rent was then only purely symbolic. The anarcho-syndicalist lawyer Vico Fiaschi advocated the socialization of the ruptures in 1920 with a historically based argumentation and appeal to the Duchess.

Marriage and offspring

Northern Italy in 1796 with the Duchy of Modena

In 1734 she married Eugenio Giovanni Francesco von Savoyen , a grandson of Louis Thomas von Savoyen-Carignan, by distance marriage, the marriage was never consummated, the couple never met, the prince died in the same year.

Her second marriage was on April 16, 1741 in Massa Ercole III. d'Este , Duke of Modena and Reggio . The marriage had two children:

  1. Maria Beatrice d'Este (April 6, 1750; † November 14, 1829), Duchess of Massa and Carrara 1790–1797 and from 1816, ⚭ October 15, 1771 Ferdinand , Archduke of Austria (June 1, 1754; † 24 December 1806)
  2. Rinaldo d'Este (January 4, 1753 - May 5, 1753)

literature

  • L'enciclopedia dei personaggi. - Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1999
  • Memorie della famiglia Cybo e delle monete di Massa di Lunigiana : Giorgio Viani 1808

Web links

Commons : Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Mueller von der Haegen: Art & Architecture Tuscany , hf Ullmann, 2010. P. 43 f.
  2. ↑ Marco Castracane: Gli italiani e l'arte , 2011, p. 88 f.
  3. ^ Provincial fascism in Italy: Political violence and the formation of power in the marble region of Carrara, 1921-1924 Roger Engelmann Oldenbourg Verlag, 1992, p. 39
  4. ^ Eugenio Giovanni Francesco di Savoia , Count of Soissons, Duke of Troppau
predecessor Office successor
Alderano Cybo Duchess of Massa
Princess of Carrara
1731–1790 		Maria Beatrice d'Este
personal data
SURNAME Cybo-Malaspina, Maria Teresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cybo, Maria Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Massa and Carrara
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Novellara , now Emilia-Romagna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1790