Napoli e il controllo della frontiera marittima al tempo del colera

Naples and the control of the maritime frontier at the time of cholera(1830-37). How to reconcile the protection of health with the defense of commerce by sea and land, the production of work as well as social, economic andfinancial balances in times of epidemics? Centuries after the Black Death andcholera epidemics, the current Covid19 pandemic has re-produced copingmechanisms characterized by absence, exclusion, bans on movement and strictborder controls and daily rhythms marked by the fear of economic and sanitary collapse. The aim of this paper is to analyze the public health measuresadopted in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to contain the spread of choleraepidemic in the early nineteenth century, with a specific focus on maritimepolicies. In particular, it will examine how the Bourbon health legislative plan,initially developed in the mid-eighteenth century and later revised in 1820,influenced practices and trade relations on the maritime border of one of theItalian peninsula's largest states until the national Unification.

Obiettivo di questo intervento è l'analisi delle misure di sanità pubblica e in particolare marittima adottate nel Regno delle Due Sicilie percontenere la diffusione delle epidemie di colera nel primo Ottocento. Partendo dal piano legislativo sanitario borbonico non emergenziale nato allametà del Settecento e poi rivisto nel 1820 si vedrà quanto e come condizionò pratiche e scambi commerciali alla frontiera marittima di uno deimaggiori stati della penisola italiana fino all'Unità.