Storia e Politica (Apr 2023)
I deputati siciliani al Parlamento napoletano del 1820-1821
Abstract
Historiography, in recent years, has dedicated new attention to the study of the ‘continental’ representatives elected to the first Representative Assembly, which assembled in Naples on 1st October 1820. However, the reflection given to those protagonists, to the present day, has not been matched by similar research on the Sicilian deputies who animated that Parliamentary Assembly with their attendance. The aim of this study is, therefore, to identify even for the insular part of the Kingdom, those who have taken advantage of the role they had been invested with, in order to improve the island’s fortunes, elected during a complex moment of Sicilian history, passed from Regnum to dominio ultra pharum after 1816.