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“The successor culture to Baroque was the age of Enlightenment. And one of the best books on that—or at any rate the most enjoyable—is by Edward Crankshaw. It’s a biography of Maria Theresa, who was very remarkable both as a person and as a ruler. First of all, she was astonishingly talented. Indeed, she was such a gifted singer that they wanted her to join the opera, but royalty didn’t do that kind of thing, so she just sang at court, at receptions.” Read more...
Nicholas Parsons, Historian
