Domenico Maccarano: le vicissitudini di uno stampatore napoletano

Abstract

This paper aims to show how censorship represented a facet of the jurisdictional tug of war between the Kingdom of Naples and the Holy See by relating the hardships of a Neapolitan printer, Ferdinando Maccarano, at the hands of the Archiepiscopal Court. Maccarano was prosecuted trice in less than two years, while the first two prosecutions came to nothing, the last led to a trial that dragged on for nearly seven years. Maccarano’s case(s) might not have been pivotal in resolving the jurisdictional issue, yet it shows how the problem permeated all social strata and could shed light on how the Neapolitan political power handled it.

Keywords

• inquisition
• neapolitan history
• book censorship
• jurisdiction
• xvii century history