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en-wikipedia-org-6236		Christina, Queen of Sweden - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	16210	1634	75	In 1675 she invited António Vieira to become her confessor.[118] Itinerant doctor and scapegrace, Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger, the legitimized son of a former literatus at Christina's court in Stockholm, arrived in Rome in 1679, converted and was appointed the Queen's personal physician until about 1687, providing autobiographical material for his picaresque novel,The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirandor (1695).[119] Christina wrote an unfinished autobiography, of which there are several drafts extant,[120] essays on her heroes Alexander the Great, Cyrus the Great and Julius Cæsar, on art and music ("Pensées, L'Ouvrage du Loisir" and "Les Sentiments Héroïques")[33] and acted as patron to musicians and poets as Vincenzo da Filicaja.[note 15] Carlo Ambrogio Lonati and Giacomo Carissimi were Kapellmeister; Lelio Colista luteplayer; Loreto Vittori and Marco Marazzoli singers and Sebastiano Baldini librettist.[121][122] She had Alessandro Stradella and Bernardo Pasquini to compose for her; Arcangelo Corelli dedicated his first work, Sonata da chiesa opus 1, to her.[123][124] On 2 February 1687 Corelli or Alessandro Scarlatti directed a tremendous orchestra [125] performing a Pasquini cantata in praise for James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Mary I[126] to welcome Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine as the new ambassador to the Vatican, accompanied by the painter John Michael Wright, who knew Rome and spoke Italian.[127]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6236.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6236.txt