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Gaspare Pellegrino

Historia Alphonsi primi regis

A cura di Fulvio Delle Donne

HB pp. XVIII-352, € 64,00

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2007
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978-88-8450-274-2
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The Historia Alphonsi primi regis of Gaspare Pellegrino, who was proto-doctor and historian at the court of Alphonse the Magnanimous, King of Naples, has been transmitted by the manuscript IX C 22 in the "Vittorio Emanuele III" National Library in Naples. Though sparsely read, used and transcribed, this manuscript has remained unedited until now. Yet the work, which we are issuing here for the first time in a critical, unabridged edition, offers new, reliable, significant, information, providing, above all, the possibility to supplement the history of Alphonse the Magnanimous over a period of more than twenty years (from 1419 to 1443) and to verify the evolution of the events narrated in other sources, both historical/narrative and documentary. Gaspare Pellegrino participated personally in the enterprises of which Alphonse was protagonist, and his eyewitness account constitutes, indubitably, a source of primary importance for the reconstruction of not only the events, but also the cultural climate and the manner in which political propaganda was organized, developed, and transmitted. Therefore, the edition of the Historia Alphonsi primi regis offers the opportunity to recover an important piece, essential to rebuild the mosaic of both the politico-institutional events in southern Italy and the historical production of the beginning of Aragonese domination. In fact, the work constitutes, on the one hand, the only source which speaks to us in a detailed way of events completely unknown until now and, on the other, contributes, or rather expressly, opens the way for the foundation of the 'magnanimous' myth of Alphonse, regularly represented as an alter Aeneas, who, equally pius, assumes the trials and risks connected with the Italian enterprise by God's will and to aid Johanna II, weak mulier irremediably oppressed by internal enemies
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