Document from the year 2012 in the subject Romance Languages -
Italian and Sardinian Studies, grade: -, Universita degli Studi
della Basilicata, course: Local Italian History, language: Italian,
comment: The Appendix has names of historians of Basilicata and
titles of their works, with date and editor., abstract: This volume
offers a survey about a case study in local italian modern
historiography, Indeed, historians of Basilicata between XVIth and
XVIIIth century, if we look ate their work with scientific
criteria, are likely to appear inconsistent and obvious examples of
dilettantism, with cuts, misunderstandings of the sources,
insertion of authorities invented or nonexistent, failure to find
primary sources or lack of verification of those availables. All
this entries, however, do not concern exclusively one or more
historians in particular: it is, more than anything else, a relief
advanced by scholars at the whole historiography of the Kingdom of
Naples of the modern age. However, these obvious flaws were offset
by a constant attention to insert the mosaic of sources in a
continuous narrative, or at least chronologically uniform, designed
to leave no gray areas in the "biography" of the community, by
"patriotic" intention to the old memories with constant use of
humanistic scholarship, not to mention the numerous references to
deserving nobles who take charge of preserving and restoring
precious relics of the past, and finally, by a principle that
recurs several times in the course of the thriving southern
historiographical production and which was inaugurated by the
leader of the southern baroque historiography, Giovanni Antonio
Summonte, in his History of the City and Kingdom of Naples, the
greater value of the authorities closest to the facts narrated.
And, above all, in these historic remained, alive and constant
concern of the "mirror of power," that is, the need for
self-representation for use by the central government, emphasizing,
therefore, the hand
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