COLLETTA, PIETRO. - Historian, b. in Naples on 23 Jan. 1775, d. at Verramista, in the villa of the Capponi, on 11 Nov. 1831. He took part as a soldier in political life, first in the Bourbon army, then in defense of the Parthenopean Republic, and both Joachim Murat and King Ferdinand made use of his work. With the return of the Austrians to Naples he was confined for two years at Brünn in Moravia. In 1823 he moved to Florence, where he composed the Storia del reame di Napoli dal 1734 sino al 1835, published posthumously by the Capponi.
In the 10 vols. of the Storia (it was placed on the Index by decree of 7 July 1835), C., a writer who is vivid in the pages in which he himself is an actor and a witness of the events narrated, nevertheless lacks a profound vision and a sure criterion of historical inquiry, bound as he is to a certain taste for chronicle. In his overall vision he remains fixed on the eighteenth-century myth of progress and on hatred of the papacy: politically he favors a middle way that is both anti-revolutionary and anti-reactionary.
Bibliography7 worksN. Cortese, Saggio di bibliografia collettiana, Bari 1917; id., Aggiunte al saggio di bibliografia collettiana, Napoli 1921; id., La vita di
BIBL.: N. Cortese, Saggio di bibliografia collettiana, Bari 1917; id., Aggiunte al saggio di bibliografia collettiana, Napoli 1921; id., La vita di P. C., Roma 1921; id., P. C. e la sua storia, Aquila 1924; B. Croce, Storia della storiografia nel secolo decimonono, 2nd ed., I, Bari 1930, pp. 84-89; N. Cortese, La condanna e l'esilio di P. C., Roma 1938; G. M. Monti, Per la storia dei Borboni di Napoli e dei patrioti meridionali, Trani 1939.
Fallani, Giovanni. “Colletta, pietro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1966. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/colletta-pietro.
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Fallani, Giovanni. “Colletta, pietro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1966. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/colletta-pietro.
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@incollection{ec3_colletta_pietro,
author = {Fallani, Giovanni},
title = {Colletta, pietro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1966},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/colletta-pietro}
}
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