A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)
Series: - The Renaissance Society of America, Volume: 19
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A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the sixteenth century, and the effects of dynastic changes from the Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty. Taken together, they form an essential resource on an important, yet all too often overlooked or misunderstood part of Renaissance Italy.
Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli, Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa D’Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.
Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli, Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa D’Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.
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Bianca de Divitiis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Naples Federico II. She has led international projects and has published widely on eighteenth-century British architecture and Renaissance in Southern Italy.
Acknowledgments
List of Maps and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Bianca de Divitiis
1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context
David Abulafia
2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule
Pierluigi Terenzi
3 Demography, Economy, and Trade
Eleni Sakellariou
4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy
Pasquale Palmieri
5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture
Francesco Montuori
6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography
Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo
7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy
Francesco Senatore
8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy
Giuliana Vitale
9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns
Francesco Storti
10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples
David Abulafia
11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply
Fulvio Lenzo
12 Architectural Patronage and Networks
Bianca de Divitiis
13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty
Fulvio Delle Donne
14 Political Treatises
Guido Cappelli
15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources
Lorenzo Miletti
16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy
Chiara De Caprio
17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy
Francesco Senatore
18 Literature and Theater
Carlo Vecce
19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico
Guido Giglioni
20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century
Antonietta Iacono
21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy
Giancarlo Abbamonte
22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula
Teresa D’Urso
23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles
Andrea Zezza
24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom
Dinko Fabris
Kings and Viceroys
Maps
Figures
Glossary
Index
List of Maps and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Bianca de Divitiis
Part 1 The Context
1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context
David Abulafia
2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule
Pierluigi Terenzi
3 Demography, Economy, and Trade
Eleni Sakellariou
4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy
Pasquale Palmieri
5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture
Francesco Montuori
6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography
Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo
Part 2 Urban Networks
7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy
Francesco Senatore
8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy
Giuliana Vitale
9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns
Francesco Storti
10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples
David Abulafia
11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply
Fulvio Lenzo
12 Architectural Patronage and Networks
Bianca de Divitiis
Part 3 Histories and Narratives
13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty
Fulvio Delle Donne
14 Political Treatises
Guido Cappelli
15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources
Lorenzo Miletti
16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy
Chiara De Caprio
17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy
Francesco Senatore
Part 4 Cultural Patterns
18 Literature and Theater
Carlo Vecce
19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico
Guido Giglioni
20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century
Antonietta Iacono
21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy
Giancarlo Abbamonte
22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula
Teresa D’Urso
23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles
Andrea Zezza
24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom
Dinko Fabris
Kings and Viceroys
Maps
Figures
Glossary
Index
Scholars, teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in Italian and European Renaissance history and culture. Keywords: Kingdom of Naples, Napoli, history, art, architecture, literature, religion, historiography, chorography, treatises, conflicts, linguistics, cities, 1350–1600, universities, elites.