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Mediterranea, 2006, Pp Collana diretta da Orazio Cancila Collana diretta da Rossella Cancila 1. Antonino Marrone, Repertorio della feudalità siciliana (1282-1390), 2006, pp. 560 21. Orazio Cancila, Nascita di una città. Castelbuono nel secolo XVI, 2013, pp. 902 2. Antonino Giuffrida, La Sicilia e l’Ordine di Malta (1529-1550). La centrali tà della 22. Claudio Maddalena, I bastoni del re. I marescialli di Francia tra corte diplomazia e guerra durante la successione spagnola, 2013, pp. 323 periferia mediterranea, 2006, pp. 244 23. Storia e attualità della Corte dei conti. Atti del convegno di studi, Palermo 29 3. Domenico Ligresti, Sicilia aperta. Mobilità di uomini e idee nella Sicilia spagnola (secoli novembre 2012, 2013, pp. 200 XV-XV1I), 2006, pp. 409 24. Rossella Cancila, Autorità sovrana e potere feudale nella Sicilia moderna, 2013, pp. 306 4. Rossella Cancila (a cura di), Mediterraneo in armi (secc. XV-XV1I1), 2007, pp. 714 25. Fabio D'Angelo, La capitale di uno stato feudale. Caltanissetta nei secoli XVI e XVII, 2013, 5. Matteo Di Figlia, Alfredo Cucco. Storia di un federale, 2007, pp. 261 pp. 318 6. Geltrude Macrì, I conti della città. Le carte dei razionali dell’università di Palermo (secoli I testi sono consultabili (e scaricabili in edizione integrale) nella sezione Quaderni del XVI-XIX), 2007, pp. 242 nostro sito (www.mediterranearicerchestoriche.it). 7. Salvatore Fodale, I Quaterni del Sigillo della Cancelleria del Regno di Sicilia (1394- 1396), 2008, pp. 163 8. Fabrizio D’Avenia, Nobiltà allo specchio. Ordine di Malta e mobilità sociale nella Sicilia moderna, 2009, pp. 406 9. Daniele Palermo, Sicilia. 1647. Voci, esempi, modelli di rivolta, 2009, pp. 360 10. Valentina Favarò, La modernizzazione militare nella Sicilia di Filippo II, 2009, pp. 288 11. Henri Bresc, Una stagione in Sicilia, a cura di Marcello Pacifico, 2010, pp. 792 12. Orazio Cancila, Castelbuono medievale e i Ventimiglia, 2010, pp. 280 13. Vita Russo, Il fenomeno confraternale a Palermo (secc. XIV-XV), 2010, pp. 338 14. Amelia Crisantino, Introduzione agli “Studii su la storia di Sicilia dalla metà del XVIII secolo al 1820” di Michele Amari, 2010, pp. 360 15. Michele Amari, Studii su la storia di Sicilia dalla metà del XVIII secolo al 1820, 2010, pp. 800 Collana diretta da Antonino Giuffrida 16. Studi storici dedicati a Orazio Cancila, a cura di A. Giuffrida, F. D’Avenia, D. Palermo, 2011, pp. XVIII, 1620 1. Amelia Crisantino, Vita esemplare di Antonino Rappa comandante dei Militi a cavallo, 2001 2. Aurelio Musi, La storicità del vivente. Lineamenti di stora e metodologia della ricerca 17. Scritti per Laura Sciascia, a cura di M. Pacifico, M.A. Russo, D. Santoro, P. Sardina, storica, 2012 2011, pp. 912 3. Rossella Cancila, Aspetti del dibattito sulle giurisdizioni feudali in Sicilia (1784-1789), 2013 18. Antonino Giuffrida, Le reti del credito nella Sicilia moderna, 2011, pp. 288 4. Nicola Cusumano, Joseph Sterzinger Aufklärer teatino tra Innsbruck e Palermo 19. Aurelio Musi, Maria Anna Noto (a cura di), Feudalità laica e feudalità ecclesiastica (1746-1821), 2013 nell’Italia meridionale, 2011, pp. 448 5. Domenico Ligresti, Le armi dei Siciliani. Cavalleria, guerra e moneta nella Sicilia spagnola (secoli XVI-XVII), 2013 20. Mario Monaldi, Il tempo avaro ogni cosa fracassa, a cura di R. Staccini, 2012, pp. 209 6. Alessandro Buono, Gianclaudio Civale (a cura di), Battaglie. l’evento, l’individuo, la memoria, 2014 I testi sono consultabili (e scaricabili in edizione integrale) nella sezione Quaderni del nostro I testi sono consultabili (e scaricabili in edizione integrale) nella sezione Ebook del nostro sito (www.mediterranearicerchestoriche.it). sito (www.mediterranearicerchestoriche.it). n° 32 Dicembre 2014 Anno XI Direttore: Orazio Cancila Responsabile: Antonino Giuffrida Comitato scientifico: Bülent Arı, Maurice Aymard, Franco Benigno, Henri Bresc, Rossella Cancila, Federico Cresti, Antonino De Francesco, Gérard Delille, Salvatore Fodale, Enrico Iachello, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Salvatore Lupo, María Ángeles Pérez Samper, Guido Pescosolido, Paolo Preto, Luis Ribot Garcia, Mustafa Soykut, Marcello Verga, Bartolomé Yun Casalilla Segreteria di Redazione: Nicola Cusumano, Valentina Favarò, Matteo Di Figlia, Lavinia Pinzarrone, Valeria Patti Direzione, Redazione e Amministrazione: Cattedra di Storia Moderna Dipartimento Culture e Società Viale delle Scienze, ed. 12 - 90128 Palermo Tel. 091 23899308 [email protected] online sul sito www.mediterranearicerchestoriche.it Mediterranea - ricerche storiche ISSN: 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN: 1828-230X (online) Registrazione n. 37, 2/12/2003, della Cancelleria del Tribunale di Palermo Iscrizione n. 15707 del Registro degli Operatori di Comunicazione Copyright © Associazione no profit “Mediterranea” - Palermo I testi sono sottoposti a referaggio in doppio cieco. Nel 2013 hanno fatto da referee per “Medi- terranea – ricerche storiche” Luigi Alonzi (Palermo), Carlo Bitossi (Ferrara), Luciano Catalio- to (Messina), Rita Chiacchella (Perugia), Pietro Del Negro (Padova), Juan Francisco Jiménez Alcázar (Murcia), Domenico Ligresti (Catania), Claudio Marsilio (Lisbona), Angelo Moioli (Milano), Marina Montesano (Messina), Aurelio Musi (Salerno), Elisa Novi Chavarria (Univer- sità del Molise), Walter Panciera (Padova), Luciano Pezzolo (Venezia), Rosanna Pirajno (Paler- mo), Giuseppe Agostino Poli (Bari), Gian Paolo Romagnani (Verona), Roberto Rossi (Salerno), Patrizia Sardina (Palermo), Claudio Torrisi (Palermo), Maurizio Vesco (Palermo). Mediterranea - ricerche storiche è presente in ISI Web of Science (Art & Humanities Citation Index), Scopus Bibliographic Database, EBSCOhost™ (Historical Abstracts, Humanities Source), CiteFactor, DOAJ, ERIH 2011(Int2), ERIH PLUS 2014, Ulrich’s web, Bibliografia Storica Nazionale, Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar, Intute, Base - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Scirus, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Digitale Bibliothek, ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Achives) 1. SAGGI E RICERCHE Stefanos P. Papageorgiou Vasos Mavrovouniotes. A Montenegrin chieftain on the threshold of modernity: from the service of the Sublime Porte to the service of the Greek Revolution and the Kingdom of Greece 463 Valentina Favarò La Sicilia e la controversia dell’Adriatico 489 Matteo Barbano Una guerra discreta: la minaccia ispano-moresca a Tangeri nel 1663 511 Danilo Pedemonte La borsa e la cifra. Alcune riflessioni sull’attività spionistica inglese ai danni del pretendente Stuart tra gli anni Venti e Trenta del Settecento 525 2. APPUNTI E NOTE Paola Nestola “Olha!” Il nome della gárgula, un congresso giubilare, il meeting point a Lisbona: topici portoghesi da dissodare 553 3. TRA STORIA E MEMORIA Giovanni Zalin Franco Sartori e l’Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti 589 n. 32 Mediterranea - ricerche storiche - Anno XI - Dicembre 2014 459 ISSN 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN 1828-230X (online) Indice 4. RECENSIONI E SCHEDE Germano Maifreda I denari dell’inquisitore. Affari e giustizia di fede nell’Italia moderna (Fabrizio Filioli Uranio) 621 Angelantonio Spagnoletti Un mare stretto e amaro. L’Adriatico, la Puglia e l’Albania (secc. XV-XVII) (Elena Papagna) 627 Marco Armiero Le montagne della patria. Natura e nazione nella storia d’Italia. Secoli XIX e XX (Thierry Couzin) 631 Elena Gaetana Faraci I prefetti della destra storica. Le politiche dell’ordine pubblico in provincia di Palermo (1862-1874) (Thierry Couzin) 632 Angelo Del Boca Italiani, brava gente? Un mito duro a morire (Thierry Couzin) 633 Luciano Canfora La trappola. Il vero volto del maggioritario (Thierry Couzin) 634 Luciano Canfora Il presente come storia. Perché il passato ci chiarisce le idee (Thierry Couzin) 635 Frédéric Barbier Le rêve grec de Monsieur de Choiseul. Les voyages d’un Européen des Lumières (Thierry Couzin) 637 Giovanni Murgia, Gianfranco Torre (a cura di) Europa e Mediterraneo. Politica, istituzioni e società. Studi in onore di Bruno Anatra (Thierry Couzin) 638 Salvo Mastellone Storia del pensiero politico (Thierry Couzin) 639 5. LIBRI RICEVUTI 643 6. GLI AUTORI 645 460 461 Stefanos P. Papageorgiou VASOS MAVROVOUNIOTES. A MONTENEGRIN CHIEFTAIN ON THE THRESHOLD OF MODERNITY: FROM THE SERVICE OF THE SUBLIME PORTE TO THE SERVICE OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION AND THE KINGDOM OF GREECE ABSTRACT: Vasos Brajovi was a Christian Slav chieftain who after having served for a time in the Ottoman army defending the Ottoman legitimacy, put himself at the service of the Greek Revolution, served with skill, energy and prudence the fledgling revolutionary modernist Greek Administration, and became one of its most important military officials. Following the end of Revolution, he remained in the liberated Greek Provinces and became a loyal – and prominent – citizen of the Kingdom of Greece, a general of the Royal Army and Royal aide, and one of the most influential political figures, being the head of a powerful patronage system. Vassos Mavrovouniotes constitutes a typical exam- ple of an Christian military group, who emerged from a turbulent and transitory period and offered his services to the Greek Revolution, and then managed to thrive into the newly established Greek Kingdom because of its possibility to adapt himself in the new post-revolutionary reality. KEYWORDS: Vasos Mavrovouniotes-Brajovi´c, Ottoman Empire, Greek Revolution of 1821, Capodis- trian era, Kingdom of Greece, Greek revolutionary armed forces, Greek Royal Army, brigandage, clientelism. VASOS MAVROVOUNIOTES. UN CAPITANO MONTENEGRINO SULLA SOGLIA DELLA
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