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Marie Mancini

1639 - 1715

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Anna Maria (Marie) Mancini (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters; nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously. Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini sisters were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Mancini has received more than 192,258 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 26 in 2019). Marie Mancini is the 790th most popular writer (down from 728th in 2019), the 941st most popular biography from Italy (down from 883rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Italian Writer.

Marie Mancini was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin and a sister of the famous Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Nemours. She was a mistress of Louis XIV of France and bore him two children.

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Notable Works

Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography
The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.
2009
Pre-modernism
Art
Speaking of the emergence of modernism, author Virginia Woolf famously said: "On or about December 1910, human character changed." But was the shift to modernism really so revolutionary? J. M. Mancini argues that it was not. She proposes that the origins of the movement can in fact be traced well into the nineteenth century. Several cultural developments after the Civil War gradually set the stage for modernism, Mancini contends. New mass art media appeared on the scene, as did a national network of museums and groundbreaking initiatives in art education.These new institutions provided support for future modernists and models for the creators of the avant-garde. Simultaneously, art critics began to embrace abstraction after the Civil War, both for aesthetic reasons and to shore up their own nascent profession. Modernism was thus linked, Mancini argues, to the emergence of cultural hierarchy. A work of impeccable scholarship and unusual breadth, the book challenges some of the basic ideas about both the origins of twentieth-century modernism and the character of Gilded-Age culture. It will appeal not only to art historians but also to scholars in American history and American studies.
2005
Art and war in the Pacific world
Architecture
"Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
2018

Page views of Marie Mancinis by language

Over the past year Marie Mancini has had the most page views in the with 19,977 views, followed by English (19,021), and Italian (8,540). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (52.36%), Esperanto (51.10%), and Ukrainian (27.40%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie Mancini ranks 790 out of 7,302. Before her are Ibn al-Muqaffa', Menippus, Theodore Beza, Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, Tao Yuanming, and Jin Yong. After her are Wilhelm Hauff, Leon Uris, Georges Bernanos, Marie d'Agoult, Alexander Litvinenko, and Cesare Pavese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Marie Mancini ranks 4. Before her are Jean Racine, Ivan Mazepa, and Dom Pérignon. After her are Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, Gottfried Kirch, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1715, Marie Mancini ranks 7. Before her are Louis XIV of France, Nicolas Malebranche, Gülnuş Sultan, François Fénelon, Dom Pérignon, and Antoine Galland. After her are William Dampier, Thomas Savery, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Pu Songling, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and François Girardon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Marie Mancini ranks 941 out of 5,161. Before her are Alberto Sordi (1920), François Gérard (1770), Melania the Younger (383), Pope Leo VIII (900), Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810), and Sandro Mazzola (1942). After her are Antipope Anacletus II (1090), Cesare Pavese (1908), Ibycus (-600), Carlo Crivelli (1430), Servilia (-104), and Nicola Amati (1596).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Marie Mancini ranks 68. Before her are Theognis of Megara (-570), Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Arrigo Boito (1842), and Valerius Maximus (-100). After her are Cesare Pavese (1908), Ibycus (-600), Pietro Bembo (1470), Italo Svevo (1861), Venantius Fortunatus (530), and Gerard of Cremona (1114).

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