Political Engagement and Popular Print in Spanish Naples (1503-1707) /
What was published in Naples during the Spanish Vicerealm? How did books, pamphlets, broadsheets and newspapers contribute to the political awareness of the Neapolitan people? To what extent did the authorities engage with this politically-charged literary world? This book aims to answer these quest...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Library of the Written Word ;
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Call Number: Z345.3.N37
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures, Maps and Charts
- Abbreviations
- 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.