Titolo La Costituzione archiviata. La politica di Carlo Filangieri tra Francesco II e Napoleone III Periodico Le Carte e la storia Anno: 2024 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 43 - Pagina finale: 57
The paper analyses the attempt made by Council President Carlo Filangieri to adopt a Constitution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, while the kingdom was on the eve of its collapse. The examination of documents enables a reconstruction that, contrary to the judgments supported by historiography attributing the failure of the constitutional initiative to the inability and superficiality of the Murattian general, instead reveals the conflicts existing within the ruling elites, the role of the Court and the positions of the Western Powers