Shugaar Antony - Naples 1343 The Unexpected Origins Of The Mafia - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several sailors and their captain. The attackers returned to the city greeted by the cheers of their countrymen and the blind eye of the authorities. The Republic of Genoa presented the Kingdom of Naples with a formal protest against the incident. But in a historical document of great importance today King Charles I of Anjou admitted he did not control his own city that the true rulers of Naples were the 'family. The purpose of this book is not to retrace the birth of the Camorra through the traditional roads of ethnology anthropology sociology or even folklore for the umpteenth time. Amedeo Feniello takes a new route through a number of previously unstudied elements and makes a unique observation: that these 'families of Naples were in power at the time of the birth of the Angevin Kingdom of Naples - one of the first European nation states. They would have been leaders of the new state actively participating in the business of the royal family and serving as a new class of directors officers and bureaucrats.
Title: Naples 1343 The Unexpected Origins Of The Mafia
Author(s): Shugaar Antony
Publisher: Other Press Llc
Barcode: 9781590511039
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 11/26/2024
Category: History