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Sicily and the Enlightenment

The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer

Angus Campbell author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:28th Oct '16

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The colourful world of 18th-century European politics as revealed by through the writings of a leading Italian statesman.

The colourful world of 18th century European politics as revealed by through the writings of a leading Italian statesman.Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the 18th-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 18th-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scandalous behaviour but, even more importantly, it is an account of an Enlightenment struggle against the increasingly outdated clerical and feudal rule in Sicily.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 official and politician and vigorous scion of the Enlightenment. In this book, Angus Campbell provides a detailed portrait of Caracciolo and of the political, social, economic, legal and cultural context in which he lived and worked. In doing so, he provides a unique vantage point on the European diplomatic culture of the 18th century.

ISBN: 9781784535759

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm

Weight: 430g

240 pages