La casa e la famiglia di Masaniello / Ricordi della storia e della vita Napolitana nel Secolo XVII

The author reconstructs the domestic background and family networks of a popular leader who sparked a mid-seventeenth-century Neapolitan uprising, combining archival research, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary chronicles to trace personal, social, and political circumstances. The narrative intersperses documentary transcriptions and critical commentary, evaluates conflicting eyewitness accounts, and catalogs lesser-known pamphlets and diaries used as sources. It situates the household and kinship ties within broader urban tensions, examines actors and episodes of the revolt, and reflects on historiographical challenges by identifying and assessing inedited materials that illuminate local life and revolutionary dynamics.