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Focusing on the prodrome stage of the most famous and significant event of the conflict between monarchy and barons in the aragonese Kingdom of Naples, the so-called Grande Congiura (1485-87), mainly with the help of unpublished... more
Focusing on the prodrome stage of the most famous and significant event of the conflict between monarchy and barons in the aragonese Kingdom of Naples, the so-called Grande Congiura (1485-87), mainly with the help of unpublished diplomatic sources from the Archivio di Stato di Milano, this work aims to provide a more detailed reconstruction of the reasons that prompted the main barons to plot and then openly rebel against Ferrante I, as well as to highlight some interesting elements relating to a common political project and a common strategy, both communicative and of territorial development.
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Questo contributo, analizzando i vari personaggi succedutisi nella carica, offre un inedito quadro interpretativo integrale, per quanto non esaustivo, della figura del primo segretario nel Regno aragonese di Napoli del secondo... more
Questo contributo, analizzando i vari personaggi succedutisi nella carica, offre un inedito quadro interpretativo integrale, per quanto non esaustivo, della figura del primo segretario nel Regno aragonese di Napoli del secondo Quattrocento e del primo Cinquecento.
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This article examines the series Corrispondenza degli ambasciatori fiorentini da Napoli, which is part of Fonti per la Storia di Napoli aragonese and saw its eighth, final volume published in 2015. It features a detailed discussion of... more
This article examines the series Corrispondenza degli ambasciatori fiorentini da Napoli, which is part of Fonti per la Storia di Napoli aragonese and saw its eighth, final volume published in 2015. It features a detailed discussion of this work, as well as observations on the features and research potential of the diplomatic source, and on the institutions and policies in the Kingdom of Naples during the 1484-1494 decade.
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The relationship between monarchy and barons represented, since the XVI century, a fundamental theme for the interpretation of the complex political and institutional dynamics concerning the Aragonese Kingdom in Naples. This relationship... more
The relationship between monarchy and barons represented, since the XVI century, a fundamental theme for the interpretation of the complex political and institutional dynamics concerning the Aragonese Kingdom in Naples. This relationship was especially seen as antithetical, because of the repeated armed conflicts between the Crown and the rebellious barons, but it deserves, according to a renewed historiography, to be still investigated from unedited observation posts. This article focuses on the neapolitan royal princes, occupied in very important institutional roles and at the same time titulars of feuds: Aragonese princes-barons, therefore, through which (and particularly Frederick of Aragon, prince of Taranto and Squillace, whose paradigmatic case is analyzed more widely) the Crown experiments an overcoming of the antithesis, extending its own political praxis and its own ideology of the power in the provincial territories, as well as spreading and defending its own ideal model of a Neapolitan baron.
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The complex life of Frederick of Aragon, second-born of Ferdinando I of Naples, is analyzed through a work of decomposition and interpretation of the data that concern to the political, cultural and ideological physiognomy of a character... more
The complex life of Frederick of Aragon, second-born of Ferdinando I of Naples, is analyzed through a work of decomposition and interpretation of the data that concern to the political, cultural and ideological physiognomy of a character considered marginal in the the dramatic Italian events of the end of the XV century. Frederick represents instead, in his formation and his roles, the extraordinary experiment that was the Aragonese system of government, and the meaning of a whole political civilization: the Renaissance of the specula principis, of the political art, that can show once more the measure of its inexhaustible originality through the reconstruction of lives as this, transversals, uniques and deeply absorbed in the practice of the power.