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Naples 1343:the Unexpected Origins Of the Mafia
[Hardback - 2024]
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Category: History
Sub-category: European History
Additional Category: True Crime
Publisher: Other Press | ISBN: 9781590511039 | Pages: 336
Shipping Weight: .567 | Dimensions: 6 x x 9 inches

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A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families’ power in the 14th century.

1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several sailors and their captain. The attackers returned to the city, greeted by the cheers of their countrymen, and the blind eye of the authorities. The Republic of Genoa presented the Kingdom of Naples with a formal protest against the incident. But, in a historical document of great importance today, King Charles I of Anjou admitted he did not control his own city, that the true rulers of Naples were the “family.”

The purpose of this book is not to retrace the birth of the Camorra through the traditional roads of ethnology, anthropology, sociology, or even folklore for the umpteenth time. Amedeo Feniello takes a new route through a number of previously unstudied elements and makes a unique observation: that these “families” of Naples were in power at the time of the birth of the Angevin Kingdom of Naples—one of the first European nation states. They would have been leaders of the new state, actively participating in the business of the royal family and serving as a new class of directors, officers, and bureaucrats.

About the Author

Amedeo Feniello insegna storia medioevale all'Università dell'Aquila. È stato, di recente, Directeur d’études invité presso l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales di Parigi e ha insegnato Storia del Mediterraneo nel Medioevopresso la Northwestern University, con sede a Evanston, Chicago. Autore di numerosi saggi sulla società e l’economia dell’Italia meridionale medievale.

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