Identità e Storie

Document from the year 2012 in the subject Romance Studies - Italian and Sardinian Studies Università degli Studi della Basilicata course: Local Italian History language: Italian abstract: This volume offers a survey about a case study in local italian modern historiography Indeed historians of Basilicata between XVIth and XVIIIth century if we look ate their work with scientific criteria are likely to appear inconsistent and obvious examples of dilettantism with cuts misunderstandings of the sources insertion of authorities invented or nonexistent failure to find primary sources or lack of verification of those availables. All this entries however do not concern exclusively one or more historians in particular: it is more than anything else a relief advanced by scholars at the whole historiography of the Kingdom of Naples of the modern age.However these obvious flaws were offset by a constant attention to insert the mosaic of sources in a continuous narrative or at least chronologically uniform designed to leave no gray areas in the biography of the community by patriotic intention to the old memories with constant use of humanistic scholarship not to mention the numerous references to deserving nobles who take charge of preserving and restoring precious relics of the past and finally by a principle that recurs several times in the course of the thriving southern historiographical production and which was inaugurated by the leader of the southern baroque historiography Giovanni Antonio Summonte in his History of the City and Kingdom of Naples the greater value of the authorities closest to the facts narrated.And above all in these historic remained alive and constant concern of the mirror of power that is the need for self-representation for use by the central government emphasizing therefore the hand on the titles of antiquity and nobility that Naples itself had offered.