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

Bianca de Divitiis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Naples Federico II. She has led international projects and has published widely on eighteenth-century British architecture and Renaissance in Southern Italy.

Acknowledgments

List of Maps and Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Bianca de Divitiis



Part 1 The Context



1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context

 David Abulafia



2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule

 Pierluigi Terenzi



3 Demography, Economy, and Trade

 Eleni Sakellariou



4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy

 Pasquale Palmieri



5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture

 Francesco Montuori



6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography

 Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo



Part 2 Urban Networks



7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy

 Francesco Senatore



8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy

 Giuliana Vitale



9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns

 Francesco Storti



10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples

 David Abulafia



11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply

 Fulvio Lenzo



12 Architectural Patronage and Networks

 Bianca de Divitiis



Part 3 Histories and Narratives



13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty

 Fulvio Delle Donne



14 Political Treatises

 Guido Cappelli



15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources

 Lorenzo Miletti



16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy

 Chiara De Caprio



17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy

 Francesco Senatore



Part 4 Cultural Patterns



18 Literature and Theater

 Carlo Vecce



19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico

 Guido Giglioni



20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century

 Antonietta Iacono



21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy

 Giancarlo Abbamonte



22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula

 Teresa D’Urso



23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles

 Andrea Zezza



24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom

 Dinko Fabris



Kings and Viceroys

Maps

Figures

Glossary

Index