Isola di Malta (1700-1798). Feudo del Regno delle Due Sicilie In the fifteen hundreds, the little Maltese archipelago, a domain of the Kingdom of Naples, paying a symbolic rent of one falcon a year, belonged to the Knights of the Order of St. John. These monk-warriors made it an anti-Turkish bulwark and a theological thalassocracy that became rich by piracy throughout the Mediterranean, to the detriment of Ottoman and Barbarian ships. The eighteenth century was the most splendid for the Order. Malta was a great maritime trading centre and the warlike knights abandoned their monastic rigour for weakness and lechery. French and English visitors tell here of the beauty of Valletta and the villas of the company of Grand Masters, while a participant in the expedition to Egypt tells of the peaceful fall of the best fortified stronghold in Europe into the hands of Napoleon

Title: Isola di Malta (1700-1798). Feudo del Regno delle Due Sicilie Pages: 127 Tables: 35 tavole applicate a mano Author: Brydone, W.C. Dierkens, L. de Boisgelin de Kerdu Edition: Italian Translation: Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Gianni Guadalupi Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: Araldo De Luca e altri Collazione: 2 pb, 10 pnn, 266 pn, 2 pb Iconographia: Portraits of the Grand Masters of Malta and pictorial views Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack

Regno delle Due Sicilie. Tomo I. Real Città di Napoli (1734-1860) Naples was the capital of the largest kingdom in Italy and second largest city in Europe for population. After the long stagnation of Spanish domination and the brief but fertile Austrian period, it was reborn with the Bourbon dynasty. The Bourbons of Naples, who have too often been depicted as blood-thirsty monsters, live again here as they appeared to their contemporaries; from the wise reformer Charles III to the good-natured Ferdinand IV and I, the “lazzarone king”; from the exuberant and picturesque Ferdinand II, last benevolent despot, to the too meek and imprudent Frances II, swept away in the final fall of the Kingdom under the all out attack of Garibaldi and the treacherous cunning of Cavour.

Title: Regno delle Due Sicilie. Tomo I. Real Città di Napoli (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 31 tavole applicate a mano, 1 cartina geografica Author: C. de Brosses, Giuseppe II, Goethe, D. de Sade, G. Gorani, L. Murat Edition: Italian Translation: Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1995 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Anna Maria Rao Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: Araldo de Luca, Luciano Pedicini, Archivio FMR Collazione: 2 pb, 10 pnn, 274 pn, 2 pnn Iconographia: Pictorial views of Naples, portraits of sovereigns (and also of Murat) Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack

Regno delle Due Sicilie II. Principato Ultra e Citra, Terra di Lavoro (1734-1860) Campania is a paradise of natural beauty that became, under the Bourbon dynasty, the destination of spellbound foreign visitors, who were delighted by its marinas, its volcanoes and its archaeological marvels, the rich crown of the great city of Naples. In this volume, as well as the magic of other times, the memorable events of which it was the setting live again, such as the brilliant conquest of Capri, the little Gibraltar of the Gulf, by Joachim Murat, and the siege of Gaeta, an epic finale in which the Bourbon dynasty redeemed its meanness.

Title: Regno delle Due Sicilie II. Principato Ultra e Citra, Terra di Lavoro (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 29 tavole applicate a mano, 2 cartina geografiche Author: Giacomo Casanova, C.U.von Salis Marschlins, P. Colletta, W Waiblinger Edition: Italian Translation: Original translation of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Giovanni Muto Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: Araldo De Luca, Saporetti, FMR Collazione: 2 pb, 10 pnn, 270 pn, 4 pnn, 2 pb Iconographia: Views by Hackert and others, portraits of Murat and Lady Hamilton and folk costumes Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack

Regno delle Due Sicilie III. Abruzzo, Ultra e Citra, Molise (1734-1860) Secluded and immersed in their agricultural and pastoral air, the mountainous and woody villages of Abruzzo and Molise, land of contraband and of seasonal emigration to the Papal States, submitted unwillingly to the Bourbons, but later became one of the bulwarks of the dynasty. They made life very difficult for the French invaders and this was the last region in the Kingdom where the gallant flag was lowered.

Title: Regno delle Due Sicilie III. Abruzzo, Ultra e Citra, Molise (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 34 tavole applicate a mano, 1 cartina geografica Author: F. Longano, G. M. Galanti, E. Lear, F. Gregorovius Edition: Italian Translation: Original translation of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Angiola de Matteis Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: De Luca, Finarte, Saporetti Collazione: 4 pb, 8 pnn, 264 pn, 4 pnn Iconographia: Uniforms, portraits of Bourbons and landscapes Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack

Regno delle due Sicilie IV. Calabria Utra e Citra, Basilicata (1734-1860) Basilicata and Calabria, lands of steep, leafy mountains, inhabited by wild and solitary mountain souls and covered with the ancient glory of Magna Grecia, gained little advancement under the Bourbon dynasty; yet from the woods and crags of these indomitable lands came the Royal Catholic Army of Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo. This defeated the Parthenopaean Republic to re-establish King Ferdinand IV and later exhausted the French of Joseph Bonaparte and of Murat in years and years of remorseless combat, as they would finally exhaust the Piedmontese invaders, in the name of the last of the Bourbons, Francis II.

Title: Regno delle due Sicilie IV. Calabria Utra e Citra, Basilicata (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 34 tavole applicate a mano, 2 cartine geografiche Author: Various credits Edition: Italian Translation: Original translation of contemporary texts or by Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Atanasio Mozzillo Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: Crediti vari Collazione: 4 pb, 8 pnn, 264 pn, 4 pnn Iconographia: Uniforms, portraits of Bourbons and landscapes

Regno delle Due Sicilie V. Capitanata, Terra di Bari, Terra di Otranto (1734-1860) With their rich vineyards and olive groves and extensive lowland pastures, the provinces of Puglia were among the most prosperous of the Bourbon kingdoms, thanks also to the work of many enlightened characters capable of proposing and implementing early reform, improving ports and roads and dividing land taken from the Jesuits. Thanks to Murat, the French decade also left an inheritance of renewal that made Puglia the most advanced region in Southern Italy.

Title: Regno delle Due Sicilie V. Capitanata, Terra di Bari, Terra di Otranto (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 28 tavole applicate a mano, 4 cartine geografiche Author: Galanti, C. Didier and various credits Edition: Italian Translation: Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Saverio Russo Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: Araldo De Luca, Saporetti Collazione: 2 pb, 10 pnn, 274 pn, 4 pnn, 2 pb Iconographia: Pictorial views, portraits, prints and folk costumes Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack

Regno delle Due Sicilie VI. Sicilia di là dal Faro (1734-1860) Proud of its insularity and its great diversity from the continental provinces of the kingdom, irritated by the Neapolitan yoke which made it feel oppressed and colonised, ruled by an aristocracy of great European prestige, linked more to London and Paris than to Naples, the Sicily of the eighteenth and nineteenth century was the Ireland of the Bourbon dynasty; potentially rich yet terribly poor, exploited and badly governed and always ready to rebel in the name of its autonomy.

Title: Regno delle Due Sicilie VI. Sicilia di là dal Faro (1734-1860) Pages: 127 Tables: 30 tavole applicate a mano, 1 cartina geografica Author: Goethe, Abba, Brydone, de Courbillon Edition: Italian Translation: Gianni Guadalupi Year: 1997 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Other Authors: Marcello Verga Dimensions: (cm) 17x26,5 Rilegato: Black "Orient" silk with tipped-in colour plate, impressed gold lettering and library case Photos by: A. De Luca, Saporetti, G. Ricci, Bibliofoto Palermo Collazione: 2 pb, 10 pnn, 288 pn, 4 pnn Iconographia: Watercolour views by Hoüel, Hackert and Lear and portraits of various sovereigns Paper: Hand-made, "velata avorio", manufactured by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia Printer: ColorBlack