JURISPRUDENCE – MILITARY ORGANISATION: • Promulgation of the first Maritime Code in Italy; • First military code; • Institutes of justification of judgements (G. Filangieri, 1774); • Establishment of Military Colleges (Nunziatella); • Fire Brigade.

Inauguration ceremony of the Raddobbo Basin in the military harbour of Naples (15-8-1852), oil on canvas. second half of the nineteenth century, Naples, General Command of the South Tyrrhenian Maritime Military Department S. Fergola

SCIENCE AND CULTURE

• Chair of Psychiatry;
• Chair of Obstetrics and surgery observations;
• Physics Laboratory of the King;
• Vesuvian seismologic observatory (first in the world), with its meteorologic station;
• Papyrus Factory in Herculaneum;
• Highest percentage of physicians per capita in Italy;
• Lowest infant mortality rate in Italy;
• First tourist agencies in Italy;
• Archaeological Excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum;

S. Carlo’s theatre rebuilt after the fire of 1816

• Posillipo painting school (among others, G. Gigante studied here); • The very famous ceramic and porcelain manufactures, among which Capodimonte manufactures; • S. Carlo’s Theatre (the first in the world), rebuild in just 270 days after a fire; • Neapolitan music school (Paisiello, Cimarosa, Scarlatti); • World success (still now) of Neapolitan songs; • The royal palaces.

These are just the “supremacies”. Our list do not include all activities carried out in the Kingdom and the success and progress reached in every sector, since we have already outlined them under the previous headings. We just mention here, as a further example, the tapestry weaving school. To conclude, we think that to arouse controversies is out of place here. We just desire to stress three historical truths so manifest to be incontrovertible: after what described on this website,

First Electric telegraph, in function from 1852

Plan and Main View of Naples Railway Station

1) can we still continue to believe in the Risorgimento “vulgate” presenting the Bourbon Kingdom as the most hated and old-fashioned in Italy? 2)How to explain that before 1861 the phenomenon of migration did not exist at all and that after that date almost 20,000,000 desperate people had to migrate? 3) Can all this provide an explanation of the tragic as well as heroic phenomenon of the pro-Bourbon revolution of 1860-1865?

It is clear, now more than ever, that Italians must be informed about their history according to greater unbiased criteria. And this is not to arouse fruitless controversies, but to honour and serve historical truth.
And to serve the memory of the cultural and civil identity of all Italians.