Neapolitans in the eternal city

CYCLE: An international capital: Rome and foreigners.
SPEAKER: Vittoria Fiorelli
DATE: Thursday, October 2, 6 p.m.

A great historian of cities, Marino Berengo, had defined Rome as a great hotel where all “nations” quartered to follow their affairs at the Curia. A destination to which, throughout the centuries of the modern age, throngs of pilgrims headed in need of welcome and points of reference to alleviate the sense of uprooting and difficulties of all kinds.

The church and archconfraternity of the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans on Via Giulia is the place from which the presence of these outsiders from all walks of life can be recounted, but without forgetting the intermarriages of the great aristocratic families who planned political and patrimonial partnerships far beyond the border between the Kingdom of Naples and the Church State.

It was a long history that came to an end when Francis of Bourbon, deposed ruler of the Two Sicilies, from his residence in Palazzo Farnese finally renounced his claim to the throne of Naples.

Vittoria Fiorelli is full professor of Modern History at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where she is in charge of the scientific direction of the Archives and Historical Library. Currently engaged in coordinating the research activities of several national and international projects, her main publications have dealt with social and cultural transformations related to welfare and religious history, the history of the Inquisition and the study of aristocratic networks between Europe and the Atlantic world.

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