Festival culture is an area which has attracted increasing interest in the field of Renaissance studies in recent years. Even though there are numerous books about European festivals, emphasizing their great importance for interdisciplinary study, the great tradition of court entertainment in the House of Savoy has been largely overlooked. Filippo d'Aglie (1604-1667) dominated the musical life of seventeenth-century Turin, during the reign of Duchess Cristina, for more than three decades (1624-1660) with the creation of more than thirty ballets, carousels and tourneys, whose popularity...