Le origini di un sogno.

The collection of texts edited by Leonardo Rapone on the intellectual itinerary of Rosario Villari offers an opportunity to reflect on the path of a historian of great importance in Italian intellectual life in the second half of the 20th century. It is a text that not only identifies Villari’s contribution to the national intellectual debate and to the Southern Question, but it also discusses his specific interpretative contribution to the history of the Kingdom of Naples, and in particular to the 17th century and Masaniello’s revolt, from the publication of La rivolta antispagnola a Napoli in 1967 to Un sogno di libertà in 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]