What has been written about the past of our homeland and our people is the path that lead us to our future and can be encased in a single term: Napolitania! This term has been widely used and recognized abroad, and can be found in literature as: "The Economic History of Modern Italy", from 1964, "La corte de Lucifer: sabios, Paganos herehes y en el mundo medieval", from 2005, "Como se organiza un biblioteca", from 1942, "Estudios franciscanos", from 1962.
So Napolitania is not a neologism invented by us independentists, but an historical term that refer to Neapolitan(Napulitane in Neapolitan, Napolitano in Italian) the inhabitants the ancient Kingdom of Naples and the actual continental part of southern Italy. Mr. Gladstone wrote about "the Neapolitan government", in a collection of writings, from 1851, our great Neapolitan patriot, Giacinto De Sivo wrote about Neapolitan people, Neapolitan Army and Neapolitan ingeniousness, in "Storia delle due Sicilie: dal 1847 al 1861" and even in "I Napolitani al cospetto delle nazioni civili", and so the Neapolitan nation appears in books like "Le pagine della letteratura italiana: antologia dei passi migliori", from 1924, "Lettere napolitane", "La questione napoletana-sicula", from 1849,"Avvertimenti morali, politici, e religiosi alle presenti, e future", "Le due civiltà : settentrionali e meridionali nella storia d'Italia", from 2000, "Soldati Napolitani", from 1843. Even Neapolitan continent appear in literature as "Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi" written by Giuseppe Da Forio, in 1862, or in "Memorie storiche e critiche della rivoluzione siciliana del 1848" written by P. Calvi. The history strongly demonstrates the existence of the Neapolitan nation, so a modern nation for Neapolitans can't take another name than the one that point to the secular connection to the people, and the capital of glorious and ancient kingdom, that has given the name to the kingdom and the people that inhabited it, Neapolis->Naples->Neapolitan->Napolitania.
With Napolitania we mean also the territories from the former Kingdom of Naples, from nowadays Abruzzo to Apulia, from lower Latium to Calabria, its inhabitants were and are known as Neapolitans. So the inhabitants of the area that describe themselves as Neapolitans demonstrate a positive awareness of the historical, cultural and social heritage.
References:
* Memorie storiche e critiche della rivoluzione siciliana del 1848 [by P. Calvi]
* Storia delle due Sicilie dal 1847 al 1861, Volym 1, by Giacinto de' Sivo
* La corte de Lucifer: sabios, paganos y herehes en el mundo medieval by Otto Rahn
* Fatti di guerra de i soldati napoletani: lettura per giovani militari by Pietro Cala Ulloa
Napolitania and the ancient provinces
So Napolitania is not a neologism invented by us independentists, but an historical term that refer to Neapolitan(Napulitane in Neapolitan, Napolitano in Italian) the inhabitants the ancient Kingdom of Naples and the actual continental part of southern Italy. Mr. Gladstone wrote about "the Neapolitan government", in a collection of writings, from 1851, our great Neapolitan patriot, Giacinto De Sivo wrote about Neapolitan people, Neapolitan Army and Neapolitan ingeniousness, in "Storia delle due Sicilie: dal 1847 al 1861" and even in "I Napolitani al cospetto delle nazioni civili", and so the Neapolitan nation appears in books like "Le pagine della letteratura italiana: antologia dei passi migliori", from 1924, "Lettere napolitane", "La questione napoletana-sicula", from 1849,"Avvertimenti morali, politici, e religiosi alle presenti, e future", "Le due civiltà : settentrionali e meridionali nella storia d'Italia", from 2000, "Soldati Napolitani", from 1843. Even Neapolitan continent appear in literature as "Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi" written by Giuseppe Da Forio, in 1862, or in "Memorie storiche e critiche della rivoluzione siciliana del 1848" written by P. Calvi. The history strongly demonstrates the existence of the Neapolitan nation, so a modern nation for Neapolitans can't take another name than the one that point to the secular connection to the people, and the capital of glorious and ancient kingdom, that has given the name to the kingdom and the people that inhabited it, Neapolis->Naples->Neapolitan->Napolitania.
With Napolitania we mean also the territories from the former Kingdom of Naples, from nowadays Abruzzo to Apulia, from lower Latium to Calabria, its inhabitants were and are known as Neapolitans. So the inhabitants of the area that describe themselves as Neapolitans demonstrate a positive awareness of the historical, cultural and social heritage.
References:
* Memorie storiche e critiche della rivoluzione siciliana del 1848 [by P. Calvi]
* Storia delle due Sicilie dal 1847 al 1861, Volym 1, by Giacinto de' Sivo
* La corte de Lucifer: sabios, paganos y herehes en el mundo medieval by Otto Rahn
* Fatti di guerra de i soldati napoletani: lettura per giovani militari by Pietro Cala Ulloa
Napolitania and the ancient provinces
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