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Sep 28, 2026
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French influence had replaced that of the Medici family in the Republic of Florence.
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In the south, Spain controlled the Kingdom of Naples.
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The Spanish Borgia family had significant political influence in the Papal States.
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Worse still, the Archduke of Austria wanted to march into Italy, to receive the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
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Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established, or they are new.
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The new are either entirely new, as was Milan to Francesco Sforza, or they are, as it were, members annexed to the hereditary state of the prince who has acquired them, as was the Kingdom of Naples to that of the King of Spain.
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Such dominions thus acquired are either accustomed to live under a prince, or to live in freedom, and are acquired either by the arms of the Prince himself, or of others, or else by fortune or by ability.
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Chapter II Concerning Hereditary Principalities I will leave out all discussion on republics inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only to principalities In doing so, I will keep to the order indicated above, and discuss how such principalities are to be ruled and preserved.
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And, as if it were not enough to have aggrandized the Church and deprived himself of friends, he, wishing to have the Kingdom of Naples, divides it with the King of Spain.
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And where he was the prime arbiter in Italy, he takes an associate, so that the ambitions of that country and the malcontents of his own should have somewhere to shelter.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Gian Galeazzo, however, was married to the granddaughter of the king of Naples, and her family was determined to support her husband's claims to Milan.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Ludovico recognized his danger from Naples and from France, so he decided to rid himself of both at once by supporting the exiled Neapolitan princes and urging Charles to enforce his right to the fine kingdom of Naples.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The king was young, a fledgling from the nest, provided neither with money nor with good sense, weak, willful, and surrounded by foolish counselors, wrote Comine of Charles at this time.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The vanity of the young king was tickled by the Italian proposals, and in opposition to the advice of Anne of Beaujeu and his wise counselors, he made peace with all his enemies and prepared to invade Italy.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Emperor was to restore to Clement the Papal States in their integrity, and once more to set up the Medici in Florence.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Pope was to invest Charles with the Kingdom of Naples and to crown him Emperor.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
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Philippa JeavonsNARRATOR
Pompey the Great was born in the same year.
Philippa JeavonsNARRATOR
Arpinum was a state which had been admitted into Roman citizenship, lying between Rome and Capua, just within that portion of Italy which was till the other day called the Kingdom of Naples.
Philippa JeavonsNARRATOR
The district from which he came is noted also as having given birth to Marius.
Philippa JeavonsNARRATOR
Cicero was of an equestrian family, which means as much as though we were to say among ourselves that a man had been born a gentleman and nothing more.
Katie ClarkHOST
It is, like, one of those iconic kind of castles, 'cause you've got that little causeway that goes across out into the sea to get there, and you can imagine that it was a pretty impressive stronghold because, you know, this poor little island was buffeted by pirates, and I think that every single person wanted to have a piece of it, which you can understand after I just described those thermal baths to you.
Katie ClarkHOST
So you've got, you've got the, the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily and France fighting over them, so, and pirates and marauders, so they needed a castle.
Holly StarrGUEST
I know.
Holly StarrGUEST
It's a common theme, actually, 'cause it's the same history, I guess, the same sort of, um, battles that were fought in Capri as well as Procida and Ischia.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Their presence in superabundant numbers in the modern state was an anachronism.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was only needful to compare the countries where they abounded in number and influence, as in Spain and the Kingdom of Naples, with England, Prussia, or France, to see whether it was possible to allege that they tended to enlightenment and prosperity.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The bill was passed in the Chamber of Deputies on March 2, 1855, by 170 ayes against 36 noes.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
There is no doubt that the idea was attractive to Napoleon.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
One of his first cares after he became emperor had been to find an accomplished Neapolitan tutor for the young sons of Prince Murat.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
About the time of the Paris Congress, emissaries were actively working on behalf of the French pretender in the kingdom of Naples.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The propaganda was in abeyance during the war because Russia made it a condition of her neutrality that the king of Naples should be let alone.
John ViscardoHOST
This is our first Kingdom episode.
John ViscardoHOST
We're going to talk about the Kingdom of Naples.
John ViscardoHOST
If it goes well, maybe we'll get to the Kingdom of Westphalia.
John ViscardoHOST
the kingdom of Saxony one day.
John ViscardoHOST
Yeah, I think I'm glad you touched on that.
John ViscardoHOST
If you really want to get deep dive on this, Naples is where the idea of Italian unification may have really taken root.
John ViscardoHOST
OK, the Kingdom of Naples occupied the southern half of the Italian peninsula and was once one of the largest states in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars.
John ViscardoHOST
So can you give us a kind of a brief overview on the history of Naples and the terrain there?
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Next he turned his attention to the pope.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Rudolph never went to Rome to receive the imperial crown, but he had a magnificent meeting with Gregory X at Lausanne, where he formally confirmed the sessions of Italian territory already made to the Pope, gave up any claims in the Angevin kingdom of Naples and Sicily, and together with many of his barons took the cross in token that he would, on the first opportunity, fulfill the Pope's most fervent wish by undertaking a crusade to the Holy Land.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The old policy of the Hohenstaufen was finally abandoned when the Habsburg monarch made a treaty of friendship with Charles of Anjou, their bitterest enemy, and promised to marry his daughter Clementia to Charles's grandson.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Italian schemes certainly never tempted the prudent emperor.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Emperor Rudolf gave security to the popes for their temporal possessions by renouncing all claims to imperial sovereignty over them, but such a territorial position, though probably a necessity at the time, brought many difficulties in its train.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was this above all else which tended to weaken the spiritual prestige of the popes by involving them in the secular interests of a temporal dominion.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the south of the peninsula, the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, united under Norman sway in the 12th century, was the most extensive stretch of land under one ruler which yet existed in Italy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Hohenstaufen emperors had gained the crown by marriage, and this had been one of the many causes of quarrel between themselves and the pope of that day, who called to his assistance Charles of Anjou, brother of St. Louis of France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Next he turned his attention to the Pope.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Rudolf never went to Rome to receive the imperial crown, but he had a magnificent meeting with Gregory X at Lausanne, where he formally confirmed the sessions of Italian territory already made to the Pope, gave up any claims in the Angevin kingdom of Naples and Sicily, and together with many of his barons took the cross in token that he would, on the first opportunity, fulfill the Pope's most fervent wish by undertaking a crusade to the Holy Land.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The old policy of the Hohenstaufen was finally abandoned when the Habsburg monarch made a treaty of friendship with Charles of Anjou, their bitterest enemy, and promised to marry his daughter Clementia to Charles's grandson.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Italian schemes certainly never tempted the prudent emperor.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Emperor Rudolf gave security to the Popes for their temporal possessions by renouncing all claims to imperial sovereignty over them, but such a territorial position, though probably a necessity at the time, brought many difficulties in its train.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was this above all else which tended to weaken the spiritual prestige of the Popes by involving them in the secular interests of a temporal dominion.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the south of the peninsula, the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, united under Norman sway in the 12th century, was the most extensive stretch of land under one ruler which yet existed in Italy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Hohenstaufen emperors had gained the crown by marriage, and this had been one of the many causes of quarrel between themselves and the Pope of that day, who called to his assistance Charles of Anjou, brother of St. Louis of France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
She had been shorn of almost all her outlying possessions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Low Countries had fallen to Austria, together with Milan, Naples, and Sardinia.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Sicily to the Duke of Savoy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Later an exchange was made between Sardinia and Sicily.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Duke of Savoy became King of Sardinia, whilst the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, that is Sicily and Naples, were made an appanage for a younger son of the House of Austria.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The only European possession outside the peninsula remaining to Spain was the Balearic Islands, and even of these England held Minorca.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the mainland also England kept tight control of Gibraltar, which she had won during the recent war.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Spain's position may be summed up in the remark that her ancient renown gave her still an importance in Europe which her present power hardly justified.
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