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- Title
Royal office and private ventures: the fortunes of a Maltese nobleman in Sicily, 1725-50.
- Authors
Caruana Galizia, Anton
- Abstract
This article investigates office-holding and private enterprise in eighteenth-century Sicily through a case study of the activities of Baron de Piro, a native of Malta. Based on documents held in Maltese and Sicilian archives, the article demonstrates how political developments in the kingdom both opened up and circumscribed the opportunities within which an upwardly-mobile household sought its fortune by identifying the social, political and economic contexts in which they operated. In doing so, it delivers insights into the impact of successive regime changes on the socio-economic landscape in Sicily as it passed from the Austrian Habsburgs to the Bourbons of Naples.
- Subjects
DE Piro, Giovanni Pio; FREE enterprise; HISTORY of Malta; HISTORY of Sicily, Italy; VAL di Noto (Italy); EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Research, 2017, Vol 90, Issue 250, p742
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12199