Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State

ISBN-13: 9780521631662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 218 str.

Girolamo Imbruglia

Opis

This volume of essays offers a series of new insights into the "age of the Enlightenment," not only in Italy but throughout Europe. In its political reforms, intended to attack feudalism and the Church and to modernize the economic and judicial systems, Naples was influenced by European culture. But Naples also exercised a strong influence on European culture: the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the musical culture of the city, had great importance in shaping the modern, enlightened culture of Europe.

Recenzje

'Girolamo Imbruglia's edited collection of essays is the most comprehensive synthesis of current research on eighteenth-century Naples available in English.' Modern Italy

Spis treści

List of abbreviations; Introduction Girolamo Imbruglia; 1. The capital and the provinces Maria Grazia Maiorini; 2. The court: power relations and forms of social life Giovanni Montroni; 3. The arrogance of the market: the economy of the kingdom between the Mediterranean and Europe Biagio Salvemini; 4. Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Naples Girolamo Imbruglia; 5. The feudal question, judicial systems and the Enlightenment Anna Maria Rao; 6. Intellectuals and academies Elvira Chiosi; 7. Music and Enlightenment Renato Di Benedetto; 8. Antiquarian studies in Naples at the end of the eighteenth century. From comparative archaeology to comparative religion Alain Schnapp; 9. How not to finish a revolution Antonino De Francesco; Bibliography; Index of names.