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Article published reviews and storia.it - February 15, 2002
It was hoped to fund with the proceeds of those expropriations new wars against the Pope and especially against Austria
Roberto Cavalli
"The Wreck of the cloisters. Convents of Otranto between Bourbon and Savoy suppression "is the title of the book (Besa Publisher) Oronzo Mazzotta which throws some 'light, with archival data in hand, on a little known chapter of our history of the Risorgimento.
Even in Italy it all begins with the French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic invasion of the Peninsula. Takes place, in small states giacobinizzati, a continuation of the legislation in France had hit the Catholic Church. Only in the Land of Otranto, which is considered the geographic scope of the book, Joachim Murat in 1809 wiped 165 convents of men and women (almost 86% of the total!): & # 8220, and sent home more than 900 religious, priests and lay people, and confiscated all goods, furniture and real estate. "
With the Bourbon restoration in 1818 the agreement was signed between the Holy See of Terracina and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. With this treaty a part of the stolen assets to the religious orders were returned to the Church, even though many homes and land had already been sold to private citizens and thus had become difficult to recover. It was still an undeniable trend reversal, and although the spirit of the Enlightenment and of the tribunal shall not leave completely immune to the Neapolitan court, was in fact enshrined in and guaranteed full religious freedom for the Catholic communities of Southern Italy.
