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Pietro Giannone

Italian historian and jurist
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Born:
May 7, 1676, Ischitella, Naples [Italy]
Died:
March 17, 1748, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (aged 71)
Subjects Of Study:
Kingdom of Naples
papacy
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Pietro Giannone (born May 7, 1676, Ischitella, Naples [Italy]—died March 17, 1748, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia) was an Italian historian whose works opposed papal interference in Naples. Giannone graduated in law (Naples, 1698), became interested in the “New Learning,” and wrote the Istoria civile del regno di Napoli (1723; The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples)—a polemical survey of Neapolitan history in which he espoused the side of the civil power in its conflicts with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. As a result of this, the Istoria was placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum (the papal register of prohibited books), ...(100 of 229 words)

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