New approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800 : the power of place / edited by Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calaresu, Melissa, author, editor.

Hills, Helen, author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naples (Italy)--Civilization.

Naples (Italy).

Naples (Italy)--History--1503-1734.

Naples (Italy)--History--1734-1860.

Civilization.

Italy--Naples.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 7 of which are in color ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.

Contents:

Between exoticism and marginalization : new approaches to Naples / Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills

Myths of modernity and the myth of the city : when the historiography of pre-modern Italy goes south / John Marino

Through a glass darkly : material holiness and the treasury Chapel of San gennaro in Naples / Helen Hills

Contaminating bodies : print and the 1656 plague in Naples / Rose Marie San Juan

Topographies of poetry : mapping early modern Naples / Harald Hendrix

The collection and dissemination of Neapolitan music, c.1600-c.1790 / Dinko Fabris

Landed identity and the bourbon Neapolitan state : Claude-Joseph Vernet and the politics of the "siti reali" / Helena Hammond

The architecture of knowledge : science, collecting, and display in 18th-century Naples / Paola Bertucci

Collecting neapolitans : the representation of street-life in late eighteenth-century Naples / Melissa Calaresu

"Missed opportunities" in the history of Naples / Anna Maria Rao.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409429432

1409429431

OCLC:

837141315