EDWARD CORP is Professor of British History, University of Toulouse, France. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions, La Cour des Stuarts à Saint-Germain-en-Laye au temps de Louis XIV (Château de Saint-Germain, 1992) and The King over the Water, 1688-1766 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001). His other publications include A Court in Exile: the Stuarts in France, 1689-1718 (2004).

'If court culture was ultimately about power, what should we make of the courts of the powerless, those built around dethroned, exiled royal dynasties? In The Jacobites at Urbino, Edward Corp provides a thought-provoking answer...Corp's study is an important contribution to both court and Jacobite studies, and will be of interest to scholars in both fields.' - Daniel Szechi, The Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations A Note on Sources Introduction From Avignon to Pesaro The King's First Visit to Rome The Palazzo Ducale at Urbino The Jacobite Courtiers Life at the Court Friction and Frustration The Music of the Court James III and the Papacy The Planned Move to Castel Gandolfo The King's Second Visit to Rome The Palazzo del Re in Rome Changes at the Court During The Nineteen The King's Marriage at Montefiascone Appendices

EDWARD CORP is Professor of British History, University of Toulouse, France. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions, La Cour des Stuarts à Saint-Germain-en-Laye au temps de Louis XIV (Château de Saint-Germain, 1992) and The King over the Water, 1688-1766 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001). His other publications include A Court in Exile: the Stuarts in France, 1689-1718 (2004).

'If court culture was ultimately about power, what should we make of the courts of the powerless, those built around dethroned, exiled royal dynasties? In The Jacobites at Urbino, Edward Corp provides a thought-provoking answer...Corp's study is an important contribution to both court and Jacobite studies, and will be of interest to scholars in both fields.' - Daniel Szechi, The Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations A Note on Sources Introduction From Avignon to Pesaro The King's First Visit to Rome The Palazzo Ducale at Urbino The Jacobite Courtiers Life at the Court Friction and Frustration The Music of the Court James III and the Papacy The Planned Move to Castel Gandolfo The King's Second Visit to Rome The Palazzo del Re in Rome Changes at the Court During The Nineteen The King's Marriage at Montefiascone Appendices

EDWARD CORP is Professor of British History, University of Toulouse, France. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions, La Cour des Stuarts à Saint-Germain-en-Laye au temps de Louis XIV (Château de Saint-Germain, 1992) and The King over the Water, 1688-1766 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001). His other publications include A Court in Exile: the Stuarts in France, 1689-1718 (2004).

'If court culture was ultimately about power, what should we make of the courts of the powerless, those built around dethroned, exiled royal dynasties? In The Jacobites at Urbino, Edward Corp provides a thought-provoking answer...Corp's study is an important contribution to both court and Jacobite studies, and will be of interest to scholars in both fields.' - Daniel Szechi, The Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations A Note on Sources Introduction From Avignon to Pesaro The King's First Visit to Rome The Palazzo Ducale at Urbino The Jacobite Courtiers Life at the Court Friction and Frustration The Music of the Court James III and the Papacy The Planned Move to Castel Gandolfo The King's Second Visit to Rome The Palazzo del Re in Rome Changes at the Court During The Nineteen The King's Marriage at Montefiascone Appendices