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- Title
"It's not true, but I believe it": Discussions on jettatura in Naples between the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries.
- Authors
de Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
- Abstract
The article discusses the idea of jettatura, a harmful magical power somewhat similar to the evil eye (malocchio) and fascination (fascino), in the Kingdom of Naples in Italy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It analyzes contemporaries' scientific ideas about jettatura and its practitioners, jettatore, commenting on the influence of ideas about medicine and physiognomy. The author comments that belief in the idea spread to the petty nobility and the upper middle class in the late eighteenth century. The writings of several Neapolitans are considered, including the jurist Nicola Valletta and Latin scholar Filippo De Martino.
- Subjects
NAPLES (Kingdom); BLACK magic; EVIL eye; HISTORY of the kingdom of Naples, 1735-1816; DE Martino, Filippo; VALLETTA, Nicola; SCIENCE &; magic
- Publication
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2011, Vol 72, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0022-5037
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jhi.2011.a413475