Hispaniaand royal humanism in Alfonsine Naples

Abstract

This article aims to elucidate a single element in the humanist royal ideology of Renaissance Naples that becomes highly conspicuous during the government of Alfonso V of Aragon after his conquest of the Regno and his entry into its capital in 1442. Alfonso's successful recruitment of a distinguished humanist personnel to his court in Naples upon his arrival on the Italian mainland was followed by a coherent and creative programme of ideological representation that repeatedly located Alfonso's rule of the Regno within a classical framework of a specifically Hispanic character. The article reconstructs the political and intellectual context of this ideological manoeuvre, examines its classical content, and argues that it was designed as a considered response to a series of polemical attacks upon the Mediterranean politics of the new Alfonsine regime.

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