Two strange constitutions, hasty and somewhat desperate, designed and enacted to satisfy contingent goals of the kings poised on the edge of the turbulent events of the Napoleonic epic, yet both of great importance for the formation in the South Italy of a constitutional thought and a constitutional movement: the constitution of Bayonne in 1808 and the constitution of Murat in 1815. The first, granted by Joseph Bonaparte to his ex-Neapolitan subjects from the small Spanish town of Bayonne - where he had been peremptorily called by his august brother to receive the crown of Spain - was a "body" stranger to the Kingdom but, despite the general discredit that surrounded it because of illiberal aspects and of main target to "lock down" the reforms of the biennium 1806-1808, at least had the merit to be the first formal constitution, as is demonstrated in this book, was effective in force until the end of the French decade. The second, commissioned by Joachim Murat to gain the support of liberals and democrats trying to mantain a throne lost, althought it was never in force, is extremely significant from a historical point of view because it created an interesting mediation between the despotism of Murat and the instances of the members of the Carbonari secret society, evidenced by the participation in the its drafting of Pierre Joseph Briot, the probable founder of the Sect in the South Italy. Examining the two constitutions, the debate that determined in liberal and democratic environments and the first steps of the Carbonari, this book offers an investigation of a historical period, the French decade, important for the Italian Risorgimento.
Da Baiona a Tolentino. Costituzioni e Costituzionalismo nel regno di Napoli durante il decennio napoleonico
MASTROBERTI, Francesco
2008-01-01
Abstract
Two strange constitutions, hasty and somewhat desperate, designed and enacted to satisfy contingent goals of the kings poised on the edge of the turbulent events of the Napoleonic epic, yet both of great importance for the formation in the South Italy of a constitutional thought and a constitutional movement: the constitution of Bayonne in 1808 and the constitution of Murat in 1815. The first, granted by Joseph Bonaparte to his ex-Neapolitan subjects from the small Spanish town of Bayonne - where he had been peremptorily called by his august brother to receive the crown of Spain - was a "body" stranger to the Kingdom but, despite the general discredit that surrounded it because of illiberal aspects and of main target to "lock down" the reforms of the biennium 1806-1808, at least had the merit to be the first formal constitution, as is demonstrated in this book, was effective in force until the end of the French decade. The second, commissioned by Joachim Murat to gain the support of liberals and democrats trying to mantain a throne lost, althought it was never in force, is extremely significant from a historical point of view because it created an interesting mediation between the despotism of Murat and the instances of the members of the Carbonari secret society, evidenced by the participation in the its drafting of Pierre Joseph Briot, the probable founder of the Sect in the South Italy. Examining the two constitutions, the debate that determined in liberal and democratic environments and the first steps of the Carbonari, this book offers an investigation of a historical period, the French decade, important for the Italian Risorgimento.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
