Silvana D’Alessio teaches Early Modern History at the University of Salerno, having trained at the University Federico II in Naples, with periods in England and Germany. Besides the Masaniello revolt of 1647, she has worked on the devastating 1656 bubonic plague outbreak in Naples, focusing on physicians and their world.

• Introduction to the English edition, Premise, PART I, The Life, II. A Job for Masaniello, III. Portrait, IV. The First Successes, V. Among the Great, VI. A Plot and the Death of Peppe Carafa, VII. The Visit to the Palace (Thursday, day 11), VIII. A Day of Justice (Friday, 12), IX. The Oath of the Duke of Arcos (Saturday, 13), X. The Excursion to Posillipo, XI. Epilogue, XII. The Funeral, XIII. The Judgments of those who knew the most, PART II, A brief history of a Myth, I. A Voice During the Revolt, II. European Stage Plays, III. The Seventeenth Century: People and Plebeians, IV. An Italian Hero during the Risorgimento, V.Part of Naples, Bibliography, Index