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The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the Time of Antonio Serra

In: Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government

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  • Francesca Rosa

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The Vicaria Prison of Naples, the largest of the Kingdom, was housed in the cellars of Castel Capuano from 1537, when the Viceroy Pedro de Toledo determined that the various law courts scattered throughout the Capital should be concentrated in one place.1 However, the Viceroy’s aim of centralizing the administration of justice was fully implemented only in 1540, when the four wheels of the Vicaria (two criminal and two civil) — the Collaterale, the Sommaria, the Zecca, and the Bagliva — were brought together and began functioning in the new premises.2 Meanwhile the prison, serving as a drain to collect “all the woes of the Kingdom”, had — as we have seen — already been functioning for some years. In 1692 Carlo Celano wrote: Under these Courts of Law are the prisons; and there have at times been as many as two thousand prisoners or more, for incarcerated here are not only the prisoners of the City, but also of the entire Kingdom.3

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  • Francesca Rosa, 2016. "The Vicaria Prison of Naples in the Time of Antonio Serra," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Rosario Patalano & Sophus A. Reinert (ed.), Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, chapter 2, pages 23-37, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psitcp:978-1-137-53996-0_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137539960_3
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