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Italy. 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...
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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, Former kingdom comprising the southern portion of the Italian peninsula. The region was held successively by Romans, Byzantines, Lombards, and Saracens before it was conquered by Normans in the 11th century and incorporated into their kingdom of Sicily .
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. However, it remained very much a Greek colony, with the Greek language ...
Historical Centre of Naples. Italy. N40 50 55.64. E14 14 48.48. 981.75 ha. 726-002. District of Villa Manzo, Santa Maria della Consolazione. Italy. N40 49 4.86.
Map of Naples, 1572. An 18th-century painting depicting an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Naples. The Naples area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The earliest historical sources in the area were left by the Myceneans in the 2nd millennium BC.
May 17, 2020 · Illustration. A map showing the cities and towns affected by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Date of map is 2007 CE.
