Alida Clemente is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Foggia. Her research interests focus on the social, economic and urban history of Southern Italy. She co-edited Microgeographies of the Western City (Routledge, 2019) with J. Stobart and Dag Lindstrom.Amedeo Feniello is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of L’Aquila. His research focuses on the study of society and the economy in Southern Italy during the Middle Ages. His most recent book on Naples is Naples 1343 (2024).Paolo Frascani is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. He is recognised as one of the leading experts on the history of contemporary Naples. His research focuses on the economic and social history of contemporary Italy. His most recent book on Naples is Napoli, Viaggio nella città reale (2017).

• I. Overviews. From the Anjevins to the 20th century. 1. The Anjevin Naples (1266-1442) Amedeo Feniello2. The Aragonese Naples (1442-1503)Roberto Delle Donne3. The Kingless Capital. Naples under Spanish and Austrian rule (1503-1734)Alida Clemente4. Naples under its ‘own king’: the first Bourbon period (1734-1806)Anna Maria Rao5. From the French Decade to Italian Unification (1806-1861)Luigi Mascilli Migliorini 6. The fate of a former capital (1860-1914)Marco Meriggi 7. A Century of Lights and Shadows. From World War I to the Nineties’ ResurgencePaolo MatteraII. Urban Nature: The Built City and Its Environment 8. Naples’ Urban Plan (c.900 - c.1500). Ronald G. Musto9. The Early Modern City (16th -19th cc.)Brigitte Marin10. The great urban transformation. From “Risanamento” to the Metropolitan City (19th -21st cc.) Roberto Parisi11. Nature and the City. Uses (and abuses) of environmental resources in Early Modern and Modern NaplesIlaria Zilli12. Disasters. The Physical and Cultural Shaping of NaplesDomenico CecereIII. Weaving the City: The Economic and Social Fabric of Naples13. The Hospital Network in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodGemma Teresa Colesanti and Salvatore Marino14. Within Global Networks: The Emporium City and Foreign Economic Elites (13th –19th cc.)Alida Clemente and Amedeo Feniello15. Capital city, ruling city, primary city: a questionable hierarchy in the economy of Early Modern Naples Daniela Ciccolella16. The primary city. Industriousness and economic centrality (18th-19th cc.)Daniela Ciccolella and Luigi De Matteo 17. The camorre. A plural phenomenon between reality and representationLuciano Brancaccio18. Industry and civil progress: a broken utopia? (20th century)Giuseppe Moricola 19. The old city centre. Facts and memory of a lived space: 1945-2016.Gabriella GribaudiIV. Mirroring Naples: Cultural Forms, Representations and Self-Image20. A stage for the sovereignty. Culture and Power in Mediaeval AgeFulvio Delle Donne 21. Histories and Historians of Early modern NaplesGirolamo Imbruglia22. Revolts and Revolutions. From the Lazzari to the ‘dangerous classes’ (17th –19th cc.)Franco Benigno23. The musical city: singing its identity (from the Renaissance to the 19th Century)Dinko Fabris24. The Heavens of Naples. True, Alleged, and Non-Existent Saints, Souls of Purgatory, and Football LegendsFrancesco Paolo De Ceglia25. Naples narrated: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema (1946-)Francesco De Cristofaro and Massimo Fusillo

Alida Clemente is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Foggia. Her research interests focus on the social, economic and urban history of Southern Italy. She co-edited Microgeographies of the Western City (Routledge, 2019) with J. Stobart and Dag Lindstrom.Amedeo Feniello is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of L’Aquila. His research focuses on the study of society and the economy in Southern Italy during the Middle Ages. His most recent book on Naples is Naples 1343 (2024).Paolo Frascani is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. He is recognised as one of the leading experts on the history of contemporary Naples. His research focuses on the economic and social history of contemporary Italy. His most recent book on Naples is Napoli, Viaggio nella città reale (2017).

• I. Overviews. From the Anjevins to the 20th century. 1. The Anjevin Naples (1266-1442) Amedeo Feniello2. The Aragonese Naples (1442-1503)Roberto Delle Donne3. The Kingless Capital. Naples under Spanish and Austrian rule (1503-1734)Alida Clemente4. Naples under its ‘own king’: the first Bourbon period (1734-1806)Anna Maria Rao5. From the French Decade to Italian Unification (1806-1861)Luigi Mascilli Migliorini 6. The fate of a former capital (1860-1914)Marco Meriggi 7. A Century of Lights and Shadows. From World War I to the Nineties’ ResurgencePaolo MatteraII. Urban Nature: The Built City and Its Environment 8. Naples’ Urban Plan (c.900 - c.1500). Ronald G. Musto9. The Early Modern City (16th -19th cc.)Brigitte Marin10. The great urban transformation. From “Risanamento” to the Metropolitan City (19th -21st cc.) Roberto Parisi11. Nature and the City. Uses (and abuses) of environmental resources in Early Modern and Modern NaplesIlaria Zilli12. Disasters. The Physical and Cultural Shaping of NaplesDomenico CecereIII. Weaving the City: The Economic and Social Fabric of Naples13. The Hospital Network in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodGemma Teresa Colesanti and Salvatore Marino14. Within Global Networks: The Emporium City and Foreign Economic Elites (13th –19th cc.)Alida Clemente and Amedeo Feniello15. Capital city, ruling city, primary city: a questionable hierarchy in the economy of Early Modern Naples Daniela Ciccolella16. The primary city. Industriousness and economic centrality (18th-19th cc.)Daniela Ciccolella and Luigi De Matteo 17. The camorre. A plural phenomenon between reality and representationLuciano Brancaccio18. Industry and civil progress: a broken utopia? (20th century)Giuseppe Moricola 19. The old city centre. Facts and memory of a lived space: 1945-2016.Gabriella GribaudiIV. Mirroring Naples: Cultural Forms, Representations and Self-Image20. A stage for the sovereignty. Culture and Power in Mediaeval AgeFulvio Delle Donne 21. Histories and Historians of Early modern NaplesGirolamo Imbruglia22. Revolts and Revolutions. From the Lazzari to the ‘dangerous classes’ (17th –19th cc.)Franco Benigno23. The musical city: singing its identity (from the Renaissance to the 19th Century)Dinko Fabris24. The Heavens of Naples. True, Alleged, and Non-Existent Saints, Souls of Purgatory, and Football LegendsFrancesco Paolo De Ceglia25. Naples narrated: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema (1946-)Francesco De Cristofaro and Massimo Fusillo

Alida Clemente is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Foggia. Her research interests focus on the social, economic and urban history of Southern Italy. She co-edited Microgeographies of the Western City (Routledge, 2019) with J. Stobart and Dag Lindstrom.Amedeo Feniello is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of L’Aquila. His research focuses on the study of society and the economy in Southern Italy during the Middle Ages. His most recent book on Naples is Naples 1343 (2024).Paolo Frascani is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. He is recognised as one of the leading experts on the history of contemporary Naples. His research focuses on the economic and social history of contemporary Italy. His most recent book on Naples is Napoli, Viaggio nella città reale (2017).

• I. Overviews. From the Anjevins to the 20th century. 1. The Anjevin Naples (1266-1442) Amedeo Feniello2. The Aragonese Naples (1442-1503)Roberto Delle Donne3. The Kingless Capital. Naples under Spanish and Austrian rule (1503-1734)Alida Clemente4. Naples under its ‘own king’: the first Bourbon period (1734-1806)Anna Maria Rao5. From the French Decade to Italian Unification (1806-1861)Luigi Mascilli Migliorini 6. The fate of a former capital (1860-1914)Marco Meriggi 7. A Century of Lights and Shadows. From World War I to the Nineties’ ResurgencePaolo MatteraII. Urban Nature: The Built City and Its Environment 8. Naples’ Urban Plan (c.900 - c.1500). Ronald G. Musto9. The Early Modern City (16th -19th cc.)Brigitte Marin10. The great urban transformation. From “Risanamento” to the Metropolitan City (19th -21st cc.) Roberto Parisi11. Nature and the City. Uses (and abuses) of environmental resources in Early Modern and Modern NaplesIlaria Zilli12. Disasters. The Physical and Cultural Shaping of NaplesDomenico CecereIII. Weaving the City: The Economic and Social Fabric of Naples13. The Hospital Network in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodGemma Teresa Colesanti and Salvatore Marino14. Within Global Networks: The Emporium City and Foreign Economic Elites (13th –19th cc.)Alida Clemente and Amedeo Feniello15. Capital city, ruling city, primary city: a questionable hierarchy in the economy of Early Modern Naples Daniela Ciccolella16. The primary city. Industriousness and economic centrality (18th-19th cc.)Daniela Ciccolella and Luigi De Matteo 17. The camorre. A plural phenomenon between reality and representationLuciano Brancaccio18. Industry and civil progress: a broken utopia? (20th century)Giuseppe Moricola 19. The old city centre. Facts and memory of a lived space: 1945-2016.Gabriella GribaudiIV. Mirroring Naples: Cultural Forms, Representations and Self-Image20. A stage for the sovereignty. Culture and Power in Mediaeval AgeFulvio Delle Donne 21. Histories and Historians of Early modern NaplesGirolamo Imbruglia22. Revolts and Revolutions. From the Lazzari to the ‘dangerous classes’ (17th –19th cc.)Franco Benigno23. The musical city: singing its identity (from the Renaissance to the 19th Century)Dinko Fabris24. The Heavens of Naples. True, Alleged, and Non-Existent Saints, Souls of Purgatory, and Football LegendsFrancesco Paolo De Ceglia25. Naples narrated: Fiction, Theatre, Cinema (1946-)Francesco De Cristofaro and Massimo Fusillo