A Criminal Hero : Justice, Politics and Media Culture in Eighteenth-Century Naples (Hardcover)

Introduction

-????????? The Case

-????????? The Sources

-????????? The Place

-????????? The Structure of the Book and the Methodology

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Chapter 1: “Buried Alive:” Leopoldo and the Style of the Holy Office (1757?1767)

-????????? Leopoldo and the Church on Trial: Jurisdictional Claims in Naples, Francesco Peccheneda’s Memoir, and the Horrors of the “Fossa”

-????????? Social Transformations and Debates on Justice in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Naples: The Reformists, the Dissemination of Information Through Print, and the Church

-????????? The Fossa and the Methods of the Roman Inquisition: Heated Conflicts between the Church and State

-????????? The Holy See and the Trial of Leopoldo: A Tragedy of One,? A Tragedy for All

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Chapter 2: Justice, Literature, and Public Space

-????????? Criminal Trials and their Audiences: Transformations in Eighteenth-Century Europe

-????????? Narrative Constructions between the Courtroom and the Public Space: the Delegate of the Royal Jurisdiction, the Defense of the Augustinians and the Credibility of Leopoldo’s Story

-????????? Representations of Crime in a Changing Publishing Market: Chapbooks, Gazettes, and Diaries

-????????? The Success of the Novel and the Idea of Transgression: A New Public?

-????????? Telling Famous Trials: Books, Images, and Moral Codes

-????????? The Story of Martin Guerre from the 16^th Century to the 18^th Century: the Development of a Debate on the Relationship between Justice and Public Opinion

-????????? Telling a Novel in the Face of the Court: how Forensic Rhetoric Reshaped the Social Imaginary of Crime

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Chapter 3: A Participatory Tale: Verbal, Visual, and Written Forms of Communication

-????????? “The Entertainment of the City”: Leopoldo as Criminal and Leopoldo as Holy Man

-????????? Leopoldo and Boccaccio: The Legacy of the Decameron in Eighteenth-Century Italian Culture

-????????? Intertextual Crimes, Intertextual Heroes: Illusionists and Performers in Literary Texts

-????????? Crime, Theater, and Censorship: the Case of Pietro Trinchera

-????????? Between Theatre and Reality: how State Control over Religious Imposture Influenced the Outcome of Trinchera’s Case

-????????? Crimes, Virtues, and Performing Arts: Preachers in the Streets and Squares of Naples

-????????? The Participatory Narrative of a Scandal: the Story of Isabella

-????????? The Cultural Dimensions of a Trial: Transmediality, Myth, and Celebrity

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Chapter 4: Literary Communication and the Building of a Political Culture

-????????? Bottom-Up Impulses, Top-Down Control, Shared Media: the Apostolic Nuncio and the Development of Political Communication about Leopoldo’s Case

-????????? “Now Every One of the People Is Enlightened”: Famine, Epidemics, and Political Unrest

-????????? Leopoldo and an Army of Revenants: Two Tales of One City

-????????? “Professors of Fictions and Lies”: a Flood of Verses, the Reputation of the Elites, and the Future of the State

-????????? The Trials against the Jesuits: Media Campaign and Political Choices

-????????? “I think I have achieved something in keeping a great part of the people calm”: a Governmentality of the Media Environment

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Conclusion: A Hidden Identity in the Theater of the World