Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)

Bianca de Divitiis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Naples Federico II. She has led international projects and has published widely on eighteenth-century British architecture and Renaissance in Southern Italy.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Maps and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionBianca de DivitiisPart 1 The Context1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean ContextDavid Abulafia2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish RulePierluigi Terenzi3 Demography, Economy, and TradeEleni Sakellariou4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and HeresyPasquale Palmieri5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and CultureFrancesco Montuori6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and GeographyBianca de Divitiis and Fulvio LenzoPart 2 Urban Networks7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern ItalyFrancesco Senatore8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern ItalyGiuliana Vitale9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and TownsFrancesco Storti10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of NaplesDavid Abulafia11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water SupplyFulvio Lenzo12 Architectural Patronage and NetworksBianca de DivitiisPart 3 Histories and Narratives13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish ViceroyaltyFulvio Delle Donne14 Political TreatisesGuido Cappelli15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical SourcesLorenzo Miletti16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern ItalyChiara De Caprio17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern ItalyFrancesco SenatorePart 4 Cultural Patterns18 Literature and TheaterCarlo Vecce19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista VicoGuido Giglioni20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth CenturyAntonietta Iacono21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern ItalyGiancarlo Abbamonte22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian PeninsulaTeresa D’Urso23 Paintings, Frescoes, and CyclesAndrea Zezza24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the KingdomDinko FabrisKings and ViceroysMapsFiguresGlossaryIndex