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

Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
1 The Barberini Buy a Piece of Paradise While They Descend into Hell......Page 32
Newcomers in a “Patchwork City of Strangers”......Page 35
Making Appear Real What in Fact Was Feigned: The Barberini and Their Acquisitions in the Countryside......Page 39
The Charcoal Seller, the Hunter, and the Priest......Page 43
Speaking in Constitutions: The Villagers Talk Back to Their New Lords......Page 49
2 Before It Was a Dirty Word: Politics in the Roman Countryside, 1640s–1680s......Page 56
Uncovering Village Politics......Page 58
Failed Possession: Nerola and the Recovered Statuto......Page 60
“To Listen to These Hill-Folk, You’d Think Every One of Them Was a Lawyer”......Page 67
3 The Adversary as Patron: Inviting the Barberini into Village Politics, 1660–1685......Page 80
Taxes Paid and Houses Open: Citizens in the Countryside......Page 82
Petitioning the “First Citizen” to Be the Noble Patron of Monte Libretti......Page 85
The Prince as Mediator: Medical Controversies in Monte Libretti......Page 89
Private Interest Versus Public Good......Page 95
4 The Epistolary Ambush of Monte Libretti: How Nobles Met the Challenge of the Papacyin the Early Eighteenth Century......Page 106
A Bureaucracy of Budgets......Page 109
A Bureaucracy on Horseback......Page 113
Administrative Vagabonds and Unreliable Paesani: Offcials in Service to the Barberini......Page 123
Controlling Politics in a Land “Where Everyone Is a Debtor”......Page 128
5 Paternalism and Politics: Benevolent Adversaries, Antagonistic Patrons......Page 134
The Lord’s Catechism......Page 136
Dreaming of the Well-Ordered Consiglio: Barberini Efforts to Limit Political Participation......Page 142
Beyond Tax Trouble in the Village: Clerics, Shirkers, and Vanishing Archives......Page 146
Induce Them with Kindness to Comply with the Law......Page 152
6 Writing Resistance: Village Attacks on Textual Monopolies in Eighteenth-Century Italy......Page 162
Everyday Controversies of the 1740s......Page 166
Making History in Monte Flavio, 1750......Page 174
Clerical Response to Adversarial Literacy......Page 184
Conclusion......Page 188
Appendix 1 The Barberini Family Tree......Page 196
Appendix 2 Money, Weights, and Measures......Page 198
Appendix 3 Population of the Stato of Monte Libretti......Page 200
Notes......Page 202
Selected Bibliography......Page 246
B......Page 262
C......Page 263
F......Page 264
L......Page 265
N......Page 266
P......Page 267
T......Page 268
Z......Page 269