Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa

Maria Teresa Cybo ( born June 29, 1725 † December 25, 1790 ) was the daughter of Alberigo Cybo, Duke of Massa and Carrara, heir to the Duchy of Massa and Carrara.

Maria Teresa came into Novel Lara (today Emilia -Romagna), the eldest child and sole heir to the world. Her father died in August 18, 1731. The duchy was initially under regency of her mother, reaching the maturity she took over in 1744, even the rule.

Rule

Maria Teresa introduced administrative reforms in the spirit of Josephinism, thereby boosting the economy was. Among other things, she was responsible for the construction of the Via Vandelli as a key road link for the Duchy, leaving a hospital in Massa build.

She founded in 1769 the Accademia di belle Arti in Carrara, Tuscany. In culture, tourist guides for Tuscany it is mentioned several times. Indirectly to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid to go back to the example of Carrara and an exchange of letters Maria Teresa with the Spanish court.

Edict to the quarries

The ownership of the marble quarries in Carrara and Massa she handed in a 1746 edict issued the municipalities ( Vicinanze ) on site, the operators had to municipalities to pay a rent. This was in fact still valid in the 20th century, but this was counteracted effectively by operators, because the rent was then only purely symbolic. The anarcho-syndicalist lawyer Vico Fiaschi continued in 1920 with a historically based reasoning and appeal to the Duchess for the socialization of fractures a.

Marriage and issue

She married in 1734 Eugenio Giovanni Francesco of Savoy, a grandson of Louis Thomas of Savoy - Carignan remotely wedding ceremony, the marriage was never consummated, the couple met never, the prince died the same year.

In her second marriage she married on April 16, 1741 in Massa Duke Ercole III. d' Este. From this marriage two children were born: