Keywords

• The correspondence of Prince Andrea IV Doria Pamphilj
• kept in Rome at the private family archives
• shows the fear experienced by a great aristocratic family in Italy during the transitional phase from the Jacobean period to the collapse of the Napoleonic regime. In the uncertain climate of those years
• Andrea IV continues the traditional policy of heritage conservation by implementing the established patrimonial policy. He makes alliances with the Serra family in Genoa
• the dâ€
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• Avalos
• the Caracciolo and the Orsini in Naples
• the Pallavicini in Parma
• in conjunction with the defeat of the royalist coalition or the rise of General Bonaparte. The letters of young Doria ladies show the deep laceration of the household: on one side their father
• the authoritarian censor who controls their moral conduct
• on the other the mother
• pious and charitable
• an actual bond of the good family governance and a mediator between the public spaces and private ones. The harmonious enclave crumbles after her death due to reasons of interest. With great commitment the women of Casa Doria conquer their spaces within the families they constituted in keeping with their nature