PORZIO, CAMILLO. - Historian, b. in Naples ca. 1526, d. there in 1580. He wrote La congiura dei baroni del Regno di Napoli contra il re Ferdinando I d'Aragona, induced to do so by Giovio and persuaded by Cardinal Seripando to compose it in Italian rather than in Latin, so that it might better serve as a document for the subjects of the Kingdom "little obedient to the will of their kings."
The author is fairly truthful, but he does not investigate the causes of events and does not penetrate their meaning. As a continuation of Giovio's work, he also began a Storia d'Italia, which stopped at book II (up to 1547). Interesting is the narration of the failed attempt by the viceroy of Spain to introduce the Inquisition into Naples (book I, ch. 19 ff.). P.'s last work was a brief summary of the most notable things of the Kingdom of Naples.
Bibliography2 worksworks: La congiura dei baroni e il l. I della Storia d'Italia with preface and historical notes by F. Torraca, Florence 1885. Studies: E. Pe
BIBL.: works: La congiura dei baroni e il l. I della Storia d'Italia with preface and historical notes by F. Torraca, Florence 1885. Studies: E. Perito, La congiura dei baroni e il conte di Policastro, Bari 1926; E. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna (Italian trans.), I, Naples 1944, pp. 148-49.
Fiore, Lanfranco. “Porzio, camillo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1820. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/porzio-camillo.
MLA
Fiore, Lanfranco. “Porzio, camillo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1820. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/porzio-camillo.
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@incollection{ec9_porzio_camillo,
author = {Fiore, Lanfranco},
title = {Porzio, camillo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1820},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/porzio-camillo}
}
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