Tracing the Spanish misadventures of Pisa's Sapienza librarian Giovanni del Turco and his friend, Livorno businessman Vincenzo Salucci, the essay returns to consider the political earthquake of the fall of Charles III's powerful minister, Count Floridablanca. The arbitrary arrest of the two Tuscans on charges of composing a defamatory libel was a case that caused a stir in diplomatic circles at the time and helps to understand the dramatic political impasse of the reforming minister.

Il 'complotto degli Italiani': Giovanni del Turco e Vincenzo Salucci nelle carceri spagnole (1789-91)

Andrea Addobbati
2024-01-01

Abstract

Tracing the Spanish misadventures of Pisa's Sapienza librarian Giovanni del Turco and his friend, Livorno businessman Vincenzo Salucci, the essay returns to consider the political earthquake of the fall of Charles III's powerful minister, Count Floridablanca. The arbitrary arrest of the two Tuscans on charges of composing a defamatory libel was a case that caused a stir in diplomatic circles at the time and helps to understand the dramatic political impasse of the reforming minister.
2024
Addobbati, Andrea
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