Città libere e baroni ribelli : la rivolta del 1647-48 negli Abruzzi

The article aims to provide an overview of how the revolt of 1647-48 evolved in the two northernmost provinces of the Kingdom of Naples. In the light of the most recent historiographical acquisitions, it is necessary to rethink the revolt in the provinces as something more complex than a simple set of popular and anti-feudal insurrections: the political issues and the competition for power in fact crossed the individual cities, but also the alignments into which both the urban patricians and the families of the feudal aristocracy were traditionally divided. In the second part, the article focuses on the case of Chieti, capital of the province of Abruzzo Citra, through archive documentation and local chronicles. [Publisher's text]