{"id":6348,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:13","slug":"filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Filomarino and the Masaniello revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Filomarino and the Masaniello revolt <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/iscrizione_masaniello_253x193.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"193\" alt=\"Rivolta Masaniello\" align=\"left\">Cardinal Filomarino&#8217;s conduct during the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-cardinal-in-naples-palazzo-filomarino\/tommaso-aniello-called-masaniello\/\" title=\"Tommaso Aniello called Masaniello\">Masaniello<\/a> revolt (1647-1648) has long been the subject of much debate among the witnesses and protagonists of the event as among historians of later centuries. Many, especially the Viceroy, the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-cardinal-in-naples-palazzo-filomarino\/inigo-velez-de-guevara-count-of-onate\/\" title=\"I\u00f1igo V\u00e9lez de Guevara, Count of O\u00f1ate\">Count of O\u00f1ate<\/a>, accused him of having openly sided with the rebels, of having acted to promote the arrival of the French to <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/lecce\/piazza-santoronzo\/naples\/\" title=\"Naples\">Naples<\/a> and, consequently, that he had been unfaithful to his legitimate sovereign, the King of Spain <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/philip-iv-of-habsburg\/\" title=\"Philip IV of Habsburg\">Philip IV<\/a>. In fact, during the revolt Filomarino maintained a deliberately ambiguous position, actually showing sympathy for the rioters and a lack of consideration for some members of the Spanish power (first of all, for the Viceroy, the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/rodrigo-ponce-de-leon-fourth-duke-of-arcos\/\" title=\"Rodrigo Ponce de Le\u00f3n, fourth Duke of Arcos\">Duke of Arcos<\/a>), but although care was taken to never exceed the boundary of loyalty to the king. He exercised an undoubted influence on Masaniello, and in general his charisma held sway over the leaders of the revolt. He managed to appoint a relative of his, Francesco Filomarino di Roccadaspide, to the strategic position of <em>grassiere<\/em> of the city (ie the prefect of the Annona) and tried to act as mediator between the rebels and the vice-regal power, attending the swearing in of the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/henry-ii-of-guise\/\" title=\"Henry II of Guise\">Duke of Guisa<\/a> (blessing his sword), but it is not historically proven that he ever tried, in agreement with <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/giulio-mazzarino\/\" title=\"Giulio Mazzarino\">Cardinal Mazarin<\/a> and Pope <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-cardinal-in-naples-palazzo-filomarino\/innocent-x\/\" title=\"Innocent X\">Innocent X<\/a>, to impose French rule over southern Italy. He refused to excommunicate the city and to condemn it, as well as strongly disapproving of the bombing of the city wished by Arcos and undertaken by the fleet which arrived in the port of Naples under the command of <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/juan-jose-de-austria\/\" title=\"Juan Jos\u00e9 de Austria\">Don Juan of Austria<\/a>. Together with the latter and the new Viceroy O\u00f1ate, Filomarino crossed the city on horseback on April 6, 1648, to spread the news of the end of the revolt and to push the leaders, above all <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/gennaro-annese\/\" title=\"Gennaro Annese\">Gennaro Annese<\/a>, to surrender peacefully. When the revolt ended, O\u00f1ate asked in vain for Filomarino&#8217;s removal, who was considered an internal enemy in the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/lecce\/other-works\/kingdom-of-naples\/\" title=\"Kingdom of Naples\">Spanish viceroyalty<\/a>. The cardinal instead remained in Naples until his death in 1666.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-archbishops-palace-and-the-cathedral\/\" title=\"The Archbishop's Palace and the Cathedral\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;previous page<\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-royal-palace\/\" title=\"The Royal Palace\">next page&#8212;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filomarino and the Masaniello revolt Cardinal Filomarino&#8217;s conduct during the Masaniello revolt (1647-1648) has long been the subject of much debate among the witnesses and protagonists of the event as among historians of later centuries. Many, especially the Viceroy, the Count of O\u00f1ate, accused him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11510,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6348\/revisions\/11510"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}