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Amedeo Feniello teaches Medieval History in the Department of Social Science at the University of L'Aquila in Italy. He has taught and conducted research at the EHESS in Paris and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Naples 1343 is his first book to appear in English. Antony Shugaar is the author of a number of books and has translated hundreds of others, including Everything Is Broken Up and Dances by Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera, Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia, and The Piranhas and Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano. His translation of Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales received the American Library Association's 2021 Batchelder Award.
“If Naples was often said to be a ‘paradise inhabited by devils,’ Amedeo Feniello, in this superb study, shows how these demons entered and then flourished—and how and why they continue to torment the South. Feniello crafts his arguments with expert precision and delivers them in a lively, engaging style. History writing at its finest.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and The Shortest History of Italy “Feniello not only puts forward an original, in some ways provocative, interpretation, but also offers a detailed fresco, spanning three centuries, of one of the most important realities in Europe.” —Corriere della Sera “A superb book…[Feniello] is a born storyteller.” —Italia Oggi
