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Experience a musical reconstruction of the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
The Coronation of Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor was widely regarded by contemporary sources as the greatest civic event of the Renaissance. Although the fractious political situation created by the Sack of Rome in 1527 necessitated the ceremonies’ transfer to Bologna, the occasion surpassed in scope any prior Imperial Investiture. The city of Bologna was transformed into an idealised replica of Rome, bedecked in ornate Triumphal Arches evoking the Caesar epoch, and the great Basilica of San Petronio (itself, one of the largest churches in the world), beautified by the Pope’s own craftsmen to mimic St Peter’s.