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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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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 ...
Naples, Italian Napoli ancient Neapolis, City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 993,386), capital of Campania, southern Italy. Located on the northern side of the Bay of Naples, southeast of Rome, it was founded c. 600 bce by refugees from an ancient Greek colony and was conquered by the Romans in the 4th century bce.
Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. half the territory of Italy, but far less of its wealth and population, lay within the kingdom of Naples and the papal states, for much of the land – mountain, marsh and arid plain – defied habitation or exploitation. Devastated by plague in the fourteenth century, the population touched its nadir around the start of the fifteenth ...
Italy. Europe. Naples History Facts and Timeline. (Naples, Campania, Italy) The history of Naples probably began around the 8th century BC with the founding of Neapolis, or 'new city', as it was known. It lay close to the much older Greek settlement of Palaepolis in the Gulf of Naples. Over the centuries, the settlement attracted many immigrants.
