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The Political Logic of Conflict. A Debate on Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà. Introduction

2021

This section of the issue offers a debate on G. Pedullà’s Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism (Cambridge 2018). Its ambition is to bring together textual and philological analysis that is «internal» to the great fabric of Machiavellian exegesis, alongside theoretical-political questioning «external» to that fabric. The main objective is to offer a new image of Machiavelli as an author who breaks with a long and authoritative tradition, one which exalted concord as an absolute political value, and to inaugurate a new way of observing political and social phenomena. The book is discussed by A. Brown, J. Hankins, J. Mc-Cormick, and N. Urbin…

The Display of Royal Ecclesiastical Power: The Palatine Chapel of Palermo (1586–1713)

2021

Any study of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo should take into account the two contexts of Spanish Caesaropapism in Sicily, namely a Church established by Habsburg rulers with the monarch at its head, and international relationships between the Spanish Monarchy, France, and the Holy See. This chapel, situated right at the heart of the Royal Palace – seat of both the Viceroy and the tribunals of the Kingdom – was actually a sort of miniature cathedral for the Spanish king-pope (as ecclesiastical patron and papal legate), and the fact that it was dedicated to Saint Peter clearly evoked the papal Basilica of the same name in Rome. The Palatine Chapel was indeed one of the main issues associated …

“Hinc fidem cattolicam professus est, settam luteranam et omnes alias detestans” Protestants' conversion to Catholicism in the Syro-Palestinian regio…

2013

Recensione a Amelia Crisantino, Breve storia della Sicilia. Le radici antiche dei problemi di oggi, Di Girolamo Editore, Trapani, 2012, pp. 288

2014

Recensione a Maria Pia Paoli (a cura di), Nel laboratorio della storia. Una guida alle fonti dell’età moderna,Carocci, Roma, 2013, pp. 397

2014

Archivio di Stato di Palermo, Scuola di Archivistica Paleografia e diplomatica. Quaderni. Studi e strumenti 4. 2004-2005.

2006

Recensione

Del buon governo. Risorse economiche e politiche dell'Universitas

2004

Il saggio ricostruisce il governo politico amministrativo di una città demaniale siciliana focalizzando i momenti di crisi quali gli episodi di infeudazione.

¿Revuelta de Masaniello o revolución de Nápoles? Una reinterpretación

2020

Between 7 and 16 July 1647 a popular revolt, led by a young fishmonger, Masaniello, shook the city of Naples. The killing of Masaniello, however, did not lead to the end of the riots. On the contrary, the revolt involved the entire kingdom of Naples, radicalized in an anti-Spanish sense and resulted in the proclamation of the Republic and the call of a French prince, the Duke of Guisa. On these events, and especially on the fracture that permanently opposed people and nobles, historiography has long debated. It is possible, however, today, also on the basis of new archival documents, to propose a different interpretation of the events, which integrates the two moments and allows an updated …

La Sicilia del Settecento tra riformismo e conservatorismo

2008

The impossible redemption of Aly del Marnegro, "true Turkish"

2012

In 1624 the corsair Aly Rais was captured by Sicilian galleys. Brought to Palermo, the Inquisition suspected that il was dealing with a renegade Christian. After gathering numerous testimonies and locating its baptismal records, they formally accused him of being the Ferrarese Francesco Guicciardino, taken by corsairs as a child and brought to Tunis, where he embraced the Muslim religion, became captain of the galleys of Biserta, and preyed on Christian shipping. Against these accusation, Aly claimed to be "Turkish" by birth and hence beyond the jurisdiction of Holy Office. By examining sources of Madrid (the inquisitorial records), from Tunis (the correspondence between the leaders of the …