From Arcadia to Revolution: The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings (Volume 67) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was the editor, and virtually the only writer of the Monitore Napoletano ( Neapolitan Monitor ), the journal in which she recorded the events and debates that took place in the short-lived Neapolitan Jacobin Republic of 1799. She sought to influence both government policy and public opinion. As a political analyst she also put forward with this journal one of the first analyses ever of popular culture and its political implications, and confronted the challenge of trying to implement a revolutionary political project in a situation of abject poverty intertwined with a deeply conservative populist mind-set. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Volume 67 Cover 1 Title Page 12 Dedication 14 Contents 16 Acknowledgments 18 Editor’s Note 20 Introduction 22 Part One: From Arcadia to Revolution 24 Poet, Mother, Jacobin 24 The Kingdom of Naples from Enlightenment to Jacobinism 36 Arcadia and Beyond: Poetry, Letters, Politics 45 Sonnet and Letter to Michele Lopez (1776) 52 Dedicatory Letter to Pombal (1777) 55 Sonnets on the Death of Her Only Son (1779) 60 Ode on a Miscarriage (1779) 62 Letter to Alberto Fortis (1785) 71 Sonnet on the Chinea (1788) 73 Letter to Michele Vargas Macciucca (1789) 77 Introduction to Caravita’s No Right Pertains to the Supreme Pontiff over the Kingdom of Naples (1790) 80 The Neapolitan Republic 85 Jacobinism, the People, Jacobins and the People 85 Neapolitan Jacobins and Their Republic 90 Anatomy of a Journal: The Monitore Napoletano 101 Editor and Author 101 A Political Project 105 A Note on the Text 112 Part Two: Monitore Napoletano (The Neapolitan Monitor) 114 Epilogue 224 Glossary of Places 230 Chronology 238 Bibliography 244 Index 260 "A study of Fonseca Pimentel's career against the backdrop of the history of the Neapolitan state plus selections from the "Monitore Napoletano", the vehicle by which she expressed her ardent advocacy of the revolutionary agenda"-- Provided by publisher