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Sicily and the Enlightenment: The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer
Angus Campbell
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSTC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-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 eighteenth-century European elite with all its extravagance and scandalous behaviour but, even more importantly, it is an account of an Enlightenment struggle against the increasingly outdated clerical and feudal rule in Sicily.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 ... Read more
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-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 eighteenth-century European elite with all its extravagance and scandalous behaviour but, even more importantly, it is an account of an Enlightenment struggle against the increasingly outdated clerical and feudal rule in Sicily.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535759
SKU
V9781784535759
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About Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is an independent researcher, translator and writer.
Reviews for Sicily and the Enlightenment: The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer
'Campbell has given us a wonderfully detailed account of the political and personal machinations of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.'
Sun News Miami (12/22/2017) 'Domenico Caracciolo attempted to introduce a programme of Enlightenment reform into Sicilian society. This is the first work on his life in English and Angus Campbell ... Read more
Sun News Miami (12/22/2017) 'Domenico Caracciolo attempted to introduce a programme of Enlightenment reform into Sicilian society. This is the first work on his life in English and Angus Campbell ... Read more