Patrons and Adversaries : Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760.

The early modern Roman countryside was a site of contestation between great aristocratic families and an expanding papal political regime. Rarely has the role of the inhabitants of this landscape--the villagers--been considered as part of that power struggle. As Caroline Castiglione shows in this co...

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Main Author: Castiglione, Caroline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Barberini Buy a Piece of Paradise While They Descend into Hell -- Newcomers in a “Patchwork City of Strangersâ€? -- Making Appear Real What in Fact Was Feigned: The Barberini and Their Acquisitions in the Countryside -- The Charcoal Seller, the Hunter, and the Priest -- Speaking in Constitutions: The Villagers Talk Back to Their New Lords -- 2 Before It Was a Dirty Word: Politics in the Roman Countryside, 1640sâ€?1680s -- Uncovering Village Politics 
505 8 |a Failed Possession: Nerola and the Recovered Statuto“To Listen to These Hill-Folk, Youâ€?d Think Every One of Them Was a Lawyerâ€? -- 3 The Adversary as Patron: Inviting the Barberini into Village Politics, 1660â€?1685 -- Taxes Paid and Houses Open: Citizens in the Countryside -- Petitioning the “First Citizenâ€? to Be the Noble Patron of Monte Libretti -- The Prince as Mediator: Medical Controversies in Monte Libretti -- Private Interest Versus Public Good 
505 8 |a 4 The Epistolary Ambush of Monte Libretti: How Nobles Met the Challenge of the Papacy in the Early Eighteenth CenturyA Bureaucracy of Budgets -- A Bureaucracy on Horseback -- Administrative Vagabonds and Unreliable Paesani: Officials in Service to the Barberini -- Controlling Politics in a Land “Where Everyone Is a Debtorâ€? -- 5 Paternalism and Politics: Benevolent Adversaries, Antagonistic Patrons -- The Lordâ€?s Catechism -- Dreaming of the Well-Ordered Consiglio: Barberini Efforts to Limit Political Participation 
505 8 |a Beyond Tax Trouble in the Village: Clerics, Shirkers, and Vanishing ArchivesInduce Them with Kindness to Comply with the Law -- 6 Writing Resistance: Village Attacks on Textual Monopolies in Eighteenth-Century Italy -- Everyday Controversies of the 1740s -- Making History in Monte Flavio, 1750 -- Clerical Response to Adversarial Literacy -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The Barberini Family Tree -- Appendix 2 Money, Weights, and Measures -- Appendix 3 Population of the Stato of Monte Libretti -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index 
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