THE SAVOY STATE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
(Lo Stato sabaudo nel Settecento)
Giuseppe Ricuperati

RIGHTS AVAILABLE 2001

The publication

After the demiurgical experience of Victor Amadeus II, who through the edicts of 1717 had delineated the both the central and the peripheral administrative frameworks of the State, it was Charles Emanuel III, with the aid of Bogino, who was to achieve a model of the "well-administered state". The structure proved to be solid and open to reform, and capable of withstanding the return to power of a "court party" under Victor Amadeus III. The reign of this sovereign was one of remarkable cultural growth, expressed in literary societies and the Academy of Sciences, but at the same time, it was forced to face the dramatic events of the French Revolution and the tensions that the collapse of the Ancien Regime caused in the Savoy territories.
The accurate and painstaking work of retracing the history of Piedmont in the Eighteenth Century undertaken by Giuseppe Ricuperati outlines the choices made by politicians such as Francesco Vincenzo d'Ormea, Giambattista Bogino, Pietro Giuseppe Graneri, Prospero Balbo and Gian Francesco Galeani Napione, partly members of the "nobiltà di servizio" from the judiciary.
Lo Stato sabaudo nel Settecento is the result of years of research and it is based on a wealth of archival documents and a full bibliography. Its historiographic and methodological worth make it an inevitable reference work for all scholars of the period.

The author

Giuseppe Ricuperati is professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Philosophy at the University of Turin. His works include L'esperienza civile e religiosa di Pietro Giannone (1970) and L'Italia del Settecento. Crisi, trasformazioni, Lumi (1987) with D. Carpanetto, and La città terrena di Pietro Giannone (2001). Together with L. Guerci he has edited the volume Il coraggio della ragione. Franco Venturi intellettuale, storico e cosmopolita (1998).

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