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Kingdom of Naples, state covering the southern portion of the Italian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860. It was often united politically with Sicily. By the early 12th century the Normans had carved out a state in southern Italy and Sicily in areas formerly held by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Muslims.
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Spanish Naples (1504–1713) saw itself as the defender and legitimate successor of the formerly independent Aragonese kingdom destroyed by French invasions in 1494 and 1499. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453–1515), the Great Captain, led an innovative military campaign that resolved more than two hundred years of Angevin-Aragonese rivalry in southe...
Renaissance Naples's local variant of "feudal humanism," which concerned itself with the problems and values of the ruling baronial elite, continued into the early sixteenth century as humanist natives of the city or kingdom sought to interpret its failures and conquest in the Italian Wars. Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) continued to be read, and Jac...
Primary Sources
Porter, Jeanne Chenault, ed.Baroque Naples. A Documentary History 1600–1800. New York, 2000. Venturi, Franco, ed.Riformatori napoletani.Illuministi italiani, vol. 5. La leteratura italiana, Storia e testi, vol. 46. Milan, 1962.
Secondary Sources
Astarita, Tommaso.The Continuity of Feudal Power: The Caracciolo di Brienza in Spanish Naples. Cambridge, U.K., and New York, 1990. ——.Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy. Baltimore, 1999. Calabria, Antonio.The Cost of Empire. The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule.Cambridge, U.K., 1991. Calabria, Antonio, and John A. Marino, eds.Good Government in Spanish Naples. New York, 1990. Galasso, Giuseppe.Alla periferia dell'impero:...
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Napoleonic Kingdom of NaplesAD 1806 - 1815. The Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies in southern Italy was conquered by the French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Napoleonic kingdom of Naples was created in its place, incorporating much of the former principality of Benevento. Brother of Napoleon I of France.
Kingdom of Naples 1799–1806. Kingdom of Naples 1806–1815. ∟ client state of the First French Empire. Kingdom of Naples 1815–1816. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1816–1861. Kingdom of Italy 1861–1946. Italian Republic 1946–present. Map of Parthenope (Palaeopolis) and Neapolis. The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek ...
The Kingdom of Naples, also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was established by the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302), when the island of Sicily revolted and was conquered by the Crown of Aragon, becoming a separate kingdom also ...
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0458. Introduction. The history of Naples and its kingdom (Regno) during these four centuries is one of constant change, foreign influence, and internal turmoil and renewal: in short, a major metropolis of early modern Europe.
