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Bartolommeo Capasso
1815–1900
A leading 19th-century historian and archivist of Naples, he devoted his life to uncovering the city's past through documents, topography, and careful scholarship. His work helped preserve and explain the medieval history of southern Italy for later generations.
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About the author
Born in Naples on February 22, 1815, Bartolommeo Capasso became one of Italy's most respected historians and archivists. He is especially remembered for his deep knowledge of Neapolitan history and for the precision with which he studied the city's medieval records, monuments, and urban landscape.
Capasso spent much of his career working with archives and historical sources, eventually serving as director of the State Archives of Naples. His books focused largely on the history of Naples and the former southern Italian provinces, and his best-known works include studies of historical sources and the monumental collection Monumenta ad Neapolitani ducatus historiam pertinentia.
He died in Naples on March 3, 1900. Today he is remembered as a patient scholar whose research made the documentary history of Naples far more accessible, and whose work still matters to readers interested in the city's long and layered past.