Tra rivoluzione e "costituzione" : identità siciliana ed esperienza parlamentare durante il regno di Federico III d'Aragona (1295-1321)

This article reconstructs the connection between the Parliament and Crown of Sicily in the first part of the reign of Frederick III (1296-1321): the King received the crown from the hands of the Sicilian representatives only on condition of swearing specific constitutiones regales (1296) concerning the prerogatives of the Assembly; the Sicilians found in the house of Aragon the legitimate heirs to the reign of the unforgettable Frederick II. The existence of a common enemy, the Angevin kingdom, would determine the further steps of the institutional cooperation and the development of that Sicilian political identity that had begun with the Vespers (Status Siciliae). This path was completed with the appointment of Peter, elder son of Frederick, as heir of the kingdom (1321). [Publisher's text].