Good Government in Spanish Naples
Good Government in Spanish Naples

Author: Antonio Calabria

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Good Government in Spanish Naples provides a narrative historical overview which links six essays from the latest research of prominent scholars in the rich, contemporary school of Neapolitan historiography. The essays examine the political and administrative structure of the Kingdom of Naples, problems of agricultural production and demographic rationale in the countryside, and social welfare and fiscal manipulation in the capital that lead to the 1647 Masaniello revolt. The riches of Neapolitan culture and the crisis and catastrophe of its politics initiates us into the reasons for the decline of the Italian South and Italy as a whole after the Renaissance. Naples emerges not as a decadent, «refeudalized» state, but as a test case for understanding the limits of the early modern state in managing conflict and moderating crises.

The Search for Good Government
The Search for Good Government

Author: Filippo Sabetti

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780773524859

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Sabetti argues that poor government performance in contemporary Italy has been an unintended consequence of attempts to craft institutions for good government. He shows that a chief problem in contemporary Italy is not the absence of the rule of law but the presence of rule by law or too many laws.

Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government
Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government

Author: Antonio Trampus

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3030480240

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This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.

Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266 - 1713
Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266 - 1713

Author: Cordelia Warr

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 144432439X

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Often overshadowed by the cities of Florence and Rome inart-historical literature, this volume argues for the importance ofNaples as an artistic and cultural centre, demonstrating thebreadth and wealth of artistic experience within the city. Generously illustrated with some illustrations specificallycommissioned for this book Questions the traditional definitions of 'cultural centres'which have led to the neglect of Naples as a centre of artisticimportance A significant addition to the English-language scholarship onart in Naples

Reason and Its Others
Reason and Its Others

Author: David R. Castillo

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780826515452

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By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other.

Church and State in Spanish Italy
Church and State in Spanish Italy

Author: Céline Dauverd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1108489850

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Examines the relation between imperialism and religion through the practice of good government in Spanish Naples. Ideal for courses on the Renaissance, imperialism, the Spanish world, European history, diplomatic-international relations and the general reader interested in cultural history, Renaissance Italy, social minorities, and religious rituals.

The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671

Author: P. Mazur

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1137295155

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This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews.

The Case for The Enlightenment
The Case for The Enlightenment

Author: John Robertson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1139448072

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An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.

Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Author: Céline Dauverd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107062365

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"Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the early modern era, when Spain and Genoa developed a symbiotic economic relationship, undergirded by a cultural and spiritual alliance. Analyzing early modern imperialism, migration, and trade, this book shows that the spiritual entente between the two nations was mainly informed by the religious division of the Mediterranean Sea. The Turkish threat in the Mediterranean reinforced the commitment of both the Spanish Crown and the Genoese merchants to Christianity. Spain's imperial strategy was reinforced by its willingness to acculturate to southern Italy through organized beneficence, representation at civic ceremonies, and spiritual guidance during religious holidays. Celine Dauverd is Assistant Professor of History and a board member of the Mediterranean Studies Group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on sociocultural relations between Spain and Italy during the early modern era (1450-1650). She has published articles in the Sixteenth Century Journal, the Journal of World History, Mediterranean Studies, and the Journal of Levantine Studies"--