Political Engagement and Popular Print in Spanish Naples (1503–1707)

Laura Incollingo, Ph.D., is a research assistant at the University of St Andrews within the ERC-funded COMLAWEU project. Her research interests cover the history of popular culture and popular print and the study of information culture in Italy in the early modern period.

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List of Figures, Maps and Charts



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Introduction

 1 Cheap Print and the Problem of Readership

 2 A Note on Sources and Terminology

 3 Popular Culture in Italian Historiography

 4 Into the Archives

 5 Aim and Structure of the Book



1 Printing in Naples

 1 An Organization for Booksellers and Printers

 2 A Thriving Industry

 3 Laws and Regulations

 4 Biographical Notes on Notable Printers



2 Print and Politics

 1 Broadsheets, Proclamations and the Communication of the Law

 2 Newspapers and Propaganda

 3 The Cost of News



3 Print in Times of Crisis

 1 Masaniello’s Revolt

 2 French Propaganda in the Neapolitan Republic

 3 The Pamphlet War

 4 The Spanish Side of the Argument



4 Print and Natural Disasters

 1 The Vesuvius Eruption of 1631

 2 The Plague of 1656



5 Print and Religion

 1 Religious Censorship

 2 Printing Religious Books

 3 A Harmonious Relationship

 4 Peculiarity of Neapolitan Devotion


Conclusions

Appendix: People of the Book Trade in Seventeenth-Century Naples

Selected Bibliography

Index