A criminal hero : justice, politics and media culture in eighteenth-century Naples / Pasquale Palmieri.
"In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of subjecting him to a series of inhuman cruel...
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| Other title: | Eroe criminale. English |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2025.
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| Series: | Microhistories.
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| Summary: | "In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of subjecting him to a series of inhuman cruelties, claiming to have been "buried alive". While waiting for a final judgement (it was pronounced seven years later, in 1764), the trial of Leopoldo di San Pasquale became a cultural phenomenon unlike any witnessed before in Naples. Cumulatively, reactions to the trial, both during and after it, broke the boundaries separating chronicle and literary fiction, engaged people's faculties of reason and emotion, and ultimately transformed Leopoldo into a public spectacle-or what we might call today a "celebrity." Focusing on the scandalous affair of the "buried alive", this book shows how the governing authorities in Naples managed the development of news and stories around current events through their systems of courts and bureaucracies. It also aims to demonstrate how, just as importantly, consumers played an increasing in the spread of information, as means to political empowerment. The sources analyzed call for a microhistorical analysis, as well as for an interdisciplinary discussion with media studies at its conceptual core. A Criminal Hero will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in microhistory, cultural history, media history, history of literature, social and political history, with a focus on the 18th century"-- |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Italian. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 148 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032722283 1032722282 9781040119198 1040119190 9781040119150 1040119158 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Pasquale Palmieri is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Naples "Federico II." He is Ph.D. in History of European Society (University of Naples Federico II, 2008) and Italian Studies (University of Texas at Austin, 2021). His research interests include early modern media and literary culture, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between politics and religion. His recent publications include Le cento vite di Cagliostro (2023) and The Land of Devotion. Saints, Politics and Media Culture in 18th-Century Italy (2023). |