NEW APPROACHES TO NAPLES
To our Neapolitan friends and colleagues
New Approaches to Naples
c.1500c.1800
The Power of Place
Edited by
Melissa Calaresu
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
Helen Hills
University of York, UK
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
New approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800 : the power of place / edited by Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2943-2 (hardcover) 1. Naples (Italy)Civilization. 2. Naples (Italy)History1503-1734. 3. Naples (Italy)History1734-1860. I. Calaresu, Melissa, author, editor of compilation. II. Hills, Helen, author, editor of compilation.
DG848.1.N48 2013
945.73107dc23
2013011289
ISBN 9781409429432 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315597881 (ebk)
Contents
Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills
John A. Marino
Helen Hills
Rose Marie San Juan
Harald Hendrix
Dinko Fabris
Helena Hammond
Paola Bertucci
Melissa Calaresu
Anna Maria Rao
Illustrations
Colour Plates
1 Luca di Fusco (publisher), The aftermath of the plague in Naples, etching and woodcut, 1659, Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. Photo Rose Marie San Juan
2 Claude-Joseph Vernet, The King hunting on Lake Patria, 75 155 cm, oil on canvas, c.1746, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, De Agostini Picture Library/A. de Gregorio/The Bridgeman Art Library
3 Claude-Joseph Vernet, Cardinal Acquaviva and his entourage at Caprarola, 132 306 cm, oil on canvas, 1746, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the Edith H. Bell Fund, 1977. By kind permission of Philadelphia Museum of Art
4 Francesco Solimena, Ferdinando Spinelli Principe di Tarsia, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
5 Filippo Falciatore, Scene di vita popolare al Largo di Castello, 129 180 cm, oil on canvas, c.1750, private collection
6 Pietro Fabris, A view of Naples, Italy, 53 82 cm, oil on canvas, 1771, Burton Constable Foundation (BCF58)
7 Pietro Fabris, A view of Naples, Italy, 53 82 cm, oil on canvas, 1771, Burton Constable Foundation (BCF59)
Notes on Contributors
Paola Bertucci is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie. Scienza e curiosit nellItalia del Settecento (Bollati Boringhieri, 2007) and co-editor of Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity (Universit di Bologna, 2001). She has published extensively on the experimental sciences in the eighteenth century and is currently completing a book on science, secrecy and the mechanical arts in Enlightenment France.
Melissa Calaresu is a Fellow and Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She has published on historical writing, the Grand Tour, the public sphere, autobiographical writings, reform to revolution, and the consumption of ice cream in eighteenth-century Naples and is currently writing a cultural history of the Neapolitan enlightenment. She is the co-editor (with Filippo de Vivo and Joan Pau Rubis) of Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (Ashgate, 2010).
Dinko Fabris teaches history of music at the Conservatorio di Bari and at the University of Basilicata. He has studied the lute, Italian literature and musicology and was awarded a PhD from the University of London. He also been awarded fellowships in Ferrara, Chicago, Melbourne and the Warburg Institute, London, and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris, Melbourne, Tours and Toulouse. In addition he is external Professor for doctoral studies at the Universities of Lubljana and Leiden (DocArtes programme) and he is an Honorary Associated Professor at Melbourne University. He was the Italian representative on the Directorium of the International Musicological Society for ten years and is now the President of the Society (201217). His research and publications focus on music in Naples from 1500 to 1800, including critical editions of music and the book Music in Seventeenth-century Naples (Ashgate, 2007).
Helena Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Dance History at the University of Roehampton. She is a cultural historian, whose doctorate examined royal imagery and the contesting of political power in eighteenth-century Naples. Her forthcoming monograph (Palgrave Macmillan) considers historical representation in dance theatre, in which connection she received the Fulbright Associations Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for dance research that advances historical knowledge and understanding generally, and held a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University. Recent publications include chapters in Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume (National Gallery of Australia, 2010), Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (Routledge, 2011), and an examination of historicity in postmodern Brechtian performance (Dance Research, 2013).
Harald Hendrix is Chair of Italian Studies at the University of Utrecht. He is the editor of Writers Houses and the Making of Memory (2nd edn, Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Autorit, modelli e antimodelli nella cultura artistica e letteraria tra Riforma e Controriforma (Vecchiarelli, 2007, with Antonello Corsaro and Paolo Procaccioli), Officine del nuovo. Sodalizi fra letterati, artisti ed editori nella cultura italiana fra Riforma e Controriforma (Vecchiarelli, 2008, with Paolo Procaccioli), Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance (Vecchiarelli, 2011, with Philiep Bossier and Paolo Procaccioli), The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Arts and Literature (Brill, 2012, with Lieke Stelling and Todd Richardson), The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies (Lexington, 2012, with Geert Buelens and Monica Jansen) and Cyprus and the Renaissance, 14501650 (Brepols, 2013, with Benjamin Arbel and Evelien Chayes).
