Overview

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was the editor, and virtually the only writer of the Monitore Napoletano (Neapolitan Monitor), the journal in which she recorded the events and debates that took place in the short-lived Neapolitan Jacobin Republic of 1799. She sought to influence both government policy and public opinion. As a political analyst she also put forward with this journal one of the first analyses ever of popular culture and its political implications, and confronted the challenge of trying to implement a revolutionary political project in a situation of abject poverty intertwined with a deeply conservative populist mind-set. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Volume 67

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Author:   Eleonora Fonsec Pimentel ,  Verina R. Jones ,  Verina R. Jones
Publisher:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Imprint:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Volume:   558
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780866986168

ISBN 10:   0866986162
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   27 February 2019
Recommended Age:   From 0 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xvii Editor’s Note xix Introduction: The Other Voice of Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel 1 Part One: From Arcadia to Revolution 3 Poet, Mother, Jacobin 3 The Kingdom of Naples from Enlightenment to Jacobinism 15 Arcadia and Beyond: Poetry, Letters, Politics 24 Sonnet and Letter to Michele Lopez (1776) 31 Dedicatory Letter to Pombal (1777) 34 Sonnets on the Death of Her Only Son (1779) 39 Ode on a Miscarriage (1779) 41 Letter to Alberto Fortis (1785) 50 Sonnet on the Chinea (1788) 52 Letter to Michele Vargas Macciucca (1789) 56 Introduction to Caravita’s No Right Pertains to the Supreme Pontiff over the Kingdom of Naples (1790) 59 The Neapolitan Republic 64 Jacobinism, the People, Jacobins and the People 64 Neapolitan Jacobins and Their Republic 69 Anatomy of a Journal: The Monitore Napoletano 80 Editor and Author 80 A Political Project 84 A Note on the Text 91 Part Two: Monitore Napoletano (The Neapolitan Monitor) 93 Epilogue: A Woman Apart 203 Glossary of Places 209 Chronology 217 Bibliography 223 Index 239

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Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel richly deserves a major Anglophone study, and in Verina Jones she has found an editor-translator whose edition of Fonseca Pimentel's writings more than makes up for past neglect. Jones makes these writings and their author accessible to a broad and non-specialist readership through introductory and narrative sections that place Fonseca Pimentel in inter-linked historical, biographical, political and cultural contexts, and not least in her far from uncontended place in gender and feminist studies. The Epilogue complements this with a critical review of the changing bibliographies and interpretations of Fonseca Pimentel, and takes up the defense of her politics against critics who have accused her of ignoring issues of gender. --John A. Davis, Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut

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Verina Jones was for many years Head of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Reading (UK), where she founded the Centre for Italian Women's Studies. She has published extensively on Manzoni, women's history and writing, and dialect literature and culture. She is currently working on the writings of Italian Jacobin women. Verina Jones was for many years Head of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Reading (UK), where she founded the Centre for Italian Women's Studies. She has published extensively on Manzoni, women's history and writing, and dialect literature and culture. She is currently working on the writings of Italian Jacobin women.

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