Guerre senza nome e altri fantasmi

Francesco Storti

doi:10.6093/2974-637X/1110071

Francesco Storti University of Naples Federico II https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9445-1969

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/2974-637X/1110071

Keywords: History of the Renaissance, History of military institutions, History of Historiography

Abstract

There are war events neglected by history for reasons not always easy to understand. This is the fate of the war fought in the Kingdom of Naples after the death of Alfonso the Magnanimous: an event of great importance to which the humanist Giovanni Pontano dedicated his great historical work, De Bello Neapolitano. Despite its impor-tance and its presence in the historiography of the modern age, it did not get the position it deserved in the history of the Renaissance. The research investigates the reasons for these omissions, starting from a scientific reconstruction of the conflict, to place it in its appro-priate space within contemporary historiography and, also, to give it a precise name, which it does not yet have: an analysis that, between history and historiography, constitutes an exemplary case study.

Author Biography

Francesco Storti, University of Naples Federico II

Francesco Storti teaches Medieval History at the Federico II University of Naples. He has dealt with military institutions, diplomatic communication, monarchical ideology and urban political space. He has published a volume of the Sforza correspondence (1998), Spaces and times of the war in the Aragonese South (with F. Senatore 2002); The Neapolitan army in the second half of the fifteenth century (2007); "The good mariner". Political psychology and monarchical ideology at the time of Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples (2014), The lancers of the king. Army and city communities in Southern Aragonese (2017).

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