The Threat from the Sea. The Kingdom of Naples between Piracy, Warfare and Statehood in a Tractatus by Giovan Francesco De Ponte

The paper focuses on the topic of the impact of piracy on the institutional framework in the Kingdom of Naples during the Modern Age (XVIth ̶ XVIIth centuries). Many historians agree that the continuous Ottoman̶-Barbaresque raids on the coast of Southern Italy played a key role in the conditions of...

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Main Author: Francesco Serpico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2020-12-01
Series:Italian Review of Legal History
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/irlh/article/view/14881