Sicily and the Enlightenment

The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer

Angus Campbell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-24166-4 (ISBN)

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Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the 18th-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches and other official writing, is a unique original source, providing a detailed and vivid picture of the 18th-century European elite with all its extravagance and scandalous behaviour. Even more importantly, it is an account of an Enlightenment struggle against the increasingly outdated clerical and feudal rule in Sicily. Caracciolo was an abrasive and combative official and politician and vigorous scion of the Enlightenment. In this book, Angus Campbell provides a detailed portrait of Caracciolo and of the political, social, economic, legal and cultural context in which he lived and worked. In doing so, he provides a unique vantage point on the European diplomatic culture of the 18th century.

Angus Campbell is an independent researcher, translator and writer.

Part I - DIPLOMAT (allegro con spirito)
Beginnings
Turin
London
Paris
Part II - INTERMEZZO
Why was He the Choice?
What Awaited Him
Part III - VICEROY (vivace assai)
Settling In
Abolition of the Inquisition
Clearing the Decks
Broadside
Picking Up
Part IV - PRIME MINISTER (andante sostenuto)
Naples at Last
CONCLUSION
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	26.02.2021
Zusatzinfo	1 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-24166-0 / 1350241660
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24166-4 / 9781350241664
Zustand	Neuware