A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)

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. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Maps and Figures ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Introduction (de Divitiis) ‎Part 1. The Context ‎Chapter 1. The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context (Abulafia) ‎Chapter 2. The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule (Terenzi) ‎Chapter 3. Demography, Economy, and Trade (Sakellariou) ‎Chapter 4. Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy (Palmieri) ‎Chapter 5. Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture (Montuori) ‎Chapter 6. Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography (de Divitiis and Lenzo) ‎Part 2. Urban Networks ‎Chapter 7. Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy (Senatore) ‎Chapter 8. Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy (Vitale) ‎Chapter 9. Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns (Storti) ‎Chapter 10. Jews, Conversos, and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples (Abulafia) ‎Chapter 11. Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply (Lenzo) ‎Chapter 12. Architectural Patronage and Networks (de Divitiis) ‎Part 3. Histories and Narratives ‎Chapter 13. Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty (Delle Donne) ‎Chapter 14. Political Treatises (Cappelli) ‎Chapter 15. Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources (Miletti) ‎Chapter 16. Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy (De Caprio) ‎Chapter 17. Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy (Senatore) ‎Part 4. Cultural Patterns ‎Chapter 18. Literature and Theatre (Vecce) ‎Chapter 19. Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico (Giglioni) ‎Chapter 20. The Academies from the Death of Pontano to the End of the 16th Century (Iacono) ‎Chapter 21. The Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites (Abbamonte) ‎Chapter 22. Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula (D’Urso) ‎Chapter 23. Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles (Zezza) ‎Chapter 24. Music and Patronage in the Courts of Southern Italy (Fabris) ‎Kings and Viceroys ‎Glossary ‎Maps ‎Figures ‎Index of Names and Sites A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy will provide readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy with 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 centre of the Mediterranean.Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, a team of specialists presents a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insights into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city and 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.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 Proporcionado por el ed.: "A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350-1600) introduces for the first time readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy to different aspects of the history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe situated at the center of the Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by Italian Renaissance, this book presents both a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, and insights 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" "A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350-1600) introduces for the first time readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy to different aspects of the history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe situated at the center of the Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by Italian Renaissance, this book presents both a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, and insights 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"-- Provided by publisher