1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Naples since the Late Middle Ages
I. Overviews. From the Anjevins to the 20th century.
1. The Anjevin Naples (1266-1442)
Amedeo Feniello
2. The Aragonese Naples (1442-1503)
Roberto Delle Donne
3. The Kingless Capital. Naples under Spanish and Austrian rule (1503-1734)
Alida Clemente
4. Naples under its ‘own king’: the first Bourbon period (1734-1806)
Anna Maria Rao
5. From the French Decade to Italian Unification (1806-1861)
Luigi Mascilli Migliorini
6. The fate of a former capital (1860-1914)
Marco Meriggi
7. A Century of Lights and Shadows. From World War I to the Nineties’ Resurgence
Paolo Mattera
II. Urban Nature: The Built City and Its Environment
8. Naples’ Urban Plan (c.900 - c.1500).
Ronald G. Musto
9. The Early Modern City (16th -19th cc.)
Brigitte Marin
10. The great urban transformation. From “Risanamento” to the Metropolitan City (19th -21st cc.)
Roberto Parisi
11. Nature and the City. Uses (and abuses) of environmental resources in Early Modern and Modern Naples
Ilaria Zilli
12. Disasters. The Physical and Cultural Shaping of Naples
Domenico Cecere
III. Weaving the City: The Economic and Social Fabric of Naples
13. The Hospital Network in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Gemma Teresa Colesanti and Salvatore Marino
14. Within Global Networks: The Emporium City and Foreign Economic Elites (13th –19th cc.)
Alida Clemente and Amedeo Feniello
Daniela Ciccolella
16. The primary city. Industriousness and economic centrality (18th-19th cc.)
Daniela Ciccolella and Luigi De Matteo
17. The camorre. A plural phenomenon between reality and representation
Luciano Brancaccio
18. Industry and civil progress: a broken utopia? (20th century)
Giuseppe Moricola
19. The old city centre. Facts and memory of a lived space: 1945-2016.
Gabriella Gribaudi
IV. Mirroring Naples: Cultural Forms, Representations and Self-Image
20. A stage for the sovereignty. Culture and Power in Mediaeval Age
Fulvio Delle Donne
21. Histories and Historians of Early modern Naples
Girolamo Imbruglia
22. Revolts and Revolutions. From the Lazzari to the ‘dangerous classes’ (17th –19th cc.)
Franco Benigno
23. The musical city: singing its identity (from the Renaissance to the 19th Century)
Dinko Fabris
24. The Heavens of Naples. True, Alleged, and Non-Existent Saints, Souls of Purgatory, and Football Legends
Francesco Paolo De Ceglia
25. Naples narrated: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema (1946-)
Francesco De Cristofaro and Massimo Fusillo
Biography
Alida Clemente is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Foggia. Her research interests focus on the social, economic and urban history of Southern Italy. She co-edited Microgeographies of the Western City (Routledge, 2019) with J. Stobart and Dag Lindstrom.
Amedeo Feniello is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of L’Aquila. His research focuses on the study of society and the economy in Southern Italy during the Middle Ages. His most recent book on Naples is Naples 1343 (2024).
Paolo Frascani is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. He is recognised as one of the leading experts on the history of contemporary Naples. His research focuses on the economic and social history of contemporary Italy. His most recent book on Naples is Napoli, Viaggio nella città reale (2017).
