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Versos para Felipe V: teatro y propaganda borbónica en Peñíscola durante la Guerra de Sucesión Española
2019
El propòsit del present treball és analitzar el contingut propagandístic de l’obra de teatre amb el títol de Comedia famosa en que se representa el asedio o sitio de Peñíscola, que versa sobre el cerco a eixa fortalesa valenciana (desembre de 1705 a maig de 1707) durant la Guerra de Successió. Como esdevé en altres textos propis de la publicística borbònica, la finalitat adoctrinadora de l’obra es concentra en la legitimació de Felipe V mitjançant la identificació de la seua causa con la de la Providència, així com en la crítica a l’arxiduc Carles i els seus aliats, en un context de pugna por l’opinió entre los dos bàndols. Al mateix temps, la peça va servir de pretext per la construcció d’…
Early modern state formation in the margins? A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
2017
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western European paradigm of historiography, the usual models being France, England, Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Regions that do not follow this paradigm have simply been left out and labeled “backward” or as “lagging behind”. In this literary review, our focus is on two different and rather surprising cases of early modern state formation: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire in Latin America. By following the scholarship on these two large conglomerates, we focus on two scholarly concepts: the idea of early modern realms as composite/conglomerate states, and state forma…
Donazioni e ricompense:la retorica bizantina al servizio del potere normanno.
2009
Il documento d'archivio simbolo e cifra del potere anche quando questo si declina nella sfera del diritto privato. Una pergamena greca del 1141 attesta la donazione di reliquie sacre in favore dell'Archimandritato di Messina: autori e destinatari, testimoni, formulario e lessico bizantini concorrono a una precisa sceneggiatura del dispositivo politico normanno nell'epoca in cui Ruggero II e il suo ministro Giorgio di Antiochia hanno fatto delle forme mutuate dall'impero bizantino un raffinato strumento di regno. The archive document is the symbol and figure of power even when this is declined in the sphere of private law. A Greek parchment of 1141 attests the donation of sacred relics in fa…
Pena negoziata e arbitrium iudicis: le transazioni criminali nel Regnum Siciliae (secc. XIII-XV)
2020
Contesti politico-istituzionali come il Regnum Siciliae sono tradizionalmente considerati esenti o, quanto meno, poco inclini a cessioni di potere e autonomia in favore dei soggetti privati in materia criminale. Se, però, il potere absolutus non ammette la delega ai privati nella gestione e risoluzione delle controversie, specialmente criminali, che tipo di funzione e natura giuridica hanno le composizioni meridionali? Se la natura dello strumento transattivo non fosse iuris privatorum a quali esigenze e scopi poteva rispondere la pratica compositiva? E ancora, se nel contesto comunale la scientia iuris si concentrò prevalentemente sul pregiudizio che una pace privata poteva avere sull’inqu…
Saverio Mattei - Il natal d'Apollo. Componimento drammatico per festeggiare la nascita di S.A.R. il principe ereditario delle Sicilie
2022
Description of the libretto "Il natal d'Apollo", a 'festa teatrale' written by Saverio Matteri to celebrate the birth of prince Carlo Tito (1775), son of the kings of Naples Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina, with summary of the plot and interpretation of the allegorical allusions.
Una Nueva Planta nella Sicilia di Filippo V: riforme militari per la “conservazione” e la difesa del Regno
2019
In 1701, in the aftermath of the ascension to the Spanish throne, Philip V began to design political and military reforms aimed at making administration more efficient and rationalizing the bureaucratic apparatus. This process had significant repercussions in the balance between the central power and representatives of local political powers who, in the delicate conjuncture of the War of Succession, redefined their participation within the Monarchy. This also happened in Sicily, where a large corpus of reform was directed to modify the island's defensive structure so as to guarantee the "conservation" of the kingdom and protect it from external and internal enemies, who worked jointly in su…
Medicina e religione: su alcuni contributi teratologici in Sicilia in età moderna
2023
The essay summarizes the parable of the affirmation of a teratological perspective in Sicily through some of its protagonists. What explanation do science and naturalists mature in the face of the disorienting epiphany of monstrous births? What lags and discontinuities are generated - in this path that is anything but linear and continuous - by a religious discourse that insists for a long time on the sacramental question and on the baptism of this unusual creatures? These are upheavals that make explicit the attempt by theology to still maintain an active dialogue with a medical discipline that in the modern age is gradually becoming the protagonist of an impetuous development.
L'Economista Anglofilo. Paolo Balsamo e l'utopia liberale in Sicilia (1787-1816)
2023
Paolo Balsamo -economist and professor of University of Palermo from 1787 to 1812- was a traveller and expert in the most advanced and modern British and European agriculture. He wrote articles and essays, both in English and Italian, on agriculture and political economy and was a correspondent of important cultural and political circles of British Whiggism. As a member of the Sicilian Parliament, ideologist of the constitutional party and trusted collaborator of Lord Bentinck, he wrote the Sicilian Constitution of 1812 which reformed the old institution of the Kingdom of Sicily transforming it into a liberal State. This monography explores Balsamo's intellectual and political figure throug…
Ius Regni: multiculturalismo giuridico e modelli di interazione normativa nella Sicilia normanna e sveva
2018
Multiculturalism is the main focus of the most recent historical studies on Norman Sicily. The famous 'Arab-Norman' monuments and the multilingual (Latin-Greek-Arabic) documents of the XI-XIIth centuries are the material witnesses of this syncretism. Encounter between cultures - Latin, Greek, Arabic - is structured in Sicily through complex mechanisms of integration and mutual acculturation. The legal interaction between different cultures is of course at the core of this complex phenomenon. This essay analyzes the dimension of multiculturalism and multinormativism, focusing on the various meanings of customs in Muslim, Norman and Swabian Sicily, and their relation with the rulers' statutes.
Hallazgo de un denario merovingio inédito de Marsella en la ciudad de Tarragona (España)
2019
Documentamos el importante descubrimiento de un denario merovingio procedente de Masilia (Marsella) en la ciudad catalana de Tarragona (España). Debido a la escasez de esta tipología, no solamente en el suelo peninsular, creemos que su publicación es de una gran importancia. Y más aún considerando que el estudio de las relaciones comerciales tanto de corto como de largo recorrido entre el reino visigodo de Toledo y la Francia merovingia se mantiene poco desarrollado. We study the important fi nding of a Merovingian denarius from Masilia (Marseille) in the Catalan city of Tarragona (Spain). Due to the scarcity of this coinage, not only in the Iberian Peninsula, we believe that its publicatio…