Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Umberto Signori
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/175
Language Italian Pages 38 P. 1-38 File size 536 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2022-175001
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This article proposes to examine the lasting possession and hereditary disposition of certain consulships. The essay shows that removing the consulship from the dynamics of competition and careerism defined the construction of a family’s status and the belonging of the titleholder to a social and kinship group. It also shows that claiming property and inheritance rights over the consulship was a matter of public protection. In the case selected, relating to the Venetian consuls in the early modern Kingdom of Naples, the patrimonial possession of the consulship was performed both by members of the Republic’s elite and by families who had established their privileged social status in the Neapolitan Adriatic. The author aims to demonstrate that during the early modern age, the association of an immaterial and individual title such as the "merit" with the consulship conferred on the consular families a social identity that was heritable and extendable to the entire lineage.
Keywords: familiar possession of consulship, hereditary rights, merits, Republic of Venice, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish viceregal era.
Umberto Signori, Il consolato ereditato: possesso di un titolo veneziano di merito nel Regno di Napoli d’epoca vicereale in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 175/2022, pp 1-38, DOI: 10.3280/SS2022-175001