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NAPLES 2500: History of a city and its territory | Part II

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Regno delle Due Sicilie

Giacomo Oddo

Brigandage or Italy after Garibaldi's dictatorship, 1863

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€ 200 - 500

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Milan, Giuseppe Scorza di Nicola, 1863-65. In large 8vo. 3 volumes. Frontispiece with portrait of the author on volume 1, numerous illustrations, mostly by Zambelli, double-framed text, light foxing, final quires of the third volume slightly browned, contemporary half-leather bindings, gilt title on the spine, minor defects.

Specialist Notes

A rare original edition of this seminal work on the history of brigandage, one of the most important nineteenth-century accounts of Southern Italy after 1860. Published during the years of heated parliamentary debate on the Southern Question, it contains a broad and well-documented analysis of brigand bands, interpreted as a political and social reaction to the fall of the Bourbons and Garibaldi's dictatorship. Giacomo Bonafede Oddo (Gratteri, Palermo, 1827 – Lascari, 1906) was a central figure in the post-Risorgimento debate, developing strongly critical positions regarding clericalism and institutional responsibilities in the governance of the South.

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