Rare edition of the most famous work by the Italian historian Gabriele Tontoli (1610-1665), in which he recounts, as an eyewitness, the great revolt of Naples on July 7, 1647 and its consequences. This insurrection was led by the fisherman Masaniello (1620-1647) who rebelled against the Spanish Crown that had imposed new taxes. Gabriele Tontoli, historian, was born around 1610 in Manfredonia in Puglia and studied law at the University of Naples, where he still lived at the time of the revolution of 1647. Witness to the riots that accompanied Masaniello's revolution, he wanted to recount what he had seen, without claiming to write a history: "I wrote this book as a mixture of historical, narrative, poetic, declamatory and colloquial... I believed that a revolution led by a man of the people should be written only by a common pen".