"Baroque Naples" presents documents on the history, culture, and
art of the city during its golden age of prestige and prosperity
under the Spanish Hapsburgs and Bourbons. Texts cover the history
of the city and kingdom, contemporary travel guides, descriptions
of the city's art, architecture and classical inheritance, its
literature, music and theater. There are also chapters that offer
texts by the famed Neapolitan economists, legal thinkers and
philosophers of the age; a survey of religious thought, and of the
Neapolitan contribution to the natural sciences. The selections are
preceded by brief introductions to the writers and the ideas
presented in the texts. Sixty-nine selections include Enrico Bacco,
John Evelyn, Salvator Rosa, Luigi Vanvitelli, the Neapolitan
Marinisti, Pietro Trapassi (Metastasio), Giovanni Battista Della
Porta, Antonio Serra, Giuseppe Palmieri, Gaetano Filangieri,
Tommaso Campanella, Giambattista Vico, Fynes Moryson and many
others. The volume also includes brief biographies and
chronologies. 60 illustrations, 3 maps, introduction, bibliography,
index.
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