"Hot or not" reports, actually important in the 18C!
Somewhat relatedly, or at least being reminded of our first "hot or not" report, the Prussian ambassador on MT, this line from Blanning from the latest reading session was hilarious:
With a triumphalist gesture worthy of Louis XIV, Frederick's choice of opera to inaugurate his new theater [in 1742] was Graun's Cesare e Cleopatra, although it may be doubted whether he intended to follow the example of his Roman model to the extent of making love to his own vanquished empress, Maria Theresa.
Re: "Hot or not" in 1742
"Hot or not" reports, actually important in the 18C!
Somewhat relatedly, or at least being reminded of our first "hot or not" report, the Prussian ambassador on MT, this line from Blanning from the latest reading session was hilarious:
With a triumphalist gesture worthy of Louis XIV, Frederick's choice of opera to inaugurate his new theater [in 1742] was Graun's Cesare e Cleopatra, although it may be doubted whether he intended to follow the example of his Roman model to the extent of making love to his own vanquished empress, Maria Theresa.