Rosario Villari is the author of The Revolt of Naples, published by Wiley.

• Foreword. Preface to the Fifth Edition.1. The Viceroyalty and the Monarchy.2. Prehistory of the Revolt.3. The Birth and Development of the Reform Movement.4. The Financial Crisis.5. The Transformation of the Aristocracy.6. The Failure of the Aristocratic Conspiracy.Afterword One: Masaniello: Contemporary and Recent Interpretations.Afterword Two: Political and Conceptual Points of Contact Between the Seventeenth-Century Revolutions: Naples and Europe.Appendices.Glossary.

'Thanks to the work of Rosario Villari, we can now see the Neapolitan upheaval as one if the most complex and fascinating of all the great European upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century.' J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford 'The Revolt of Naples has established itself as a classic of modern Italian historical writing, and should have been translated long ago.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge'This translation of an Italian 'classic' is to be applauded.' Times Literary Supplement'One of the most important books written by an Italian historian in the last forty years ... widely and justly considered a classic of Italian historiography ... all English-speakers interested in European history should be grateful for the publication of the English version of this brilliant and most important book.' Journal of Modern Italian Studies'A fascinating picture of the mighty Spanish Empire in terminal decline.' The Pike and Shot Society