Les Osservazioni de Filippo Maria Pagano sur la Constitution de Cadix à Naples en 1820

The constitutional debate ongoing in the south of the Italian peninsula during the « nonimestre » had been deep and intellectuals such as Filippo Maria Pagano, a career military person and author of remarkable Istoria del Regno di Napoli. Pagano’s Osservazioni alla Costituzione Spagnuola, published in 1820, focused on some critical aspects of the « reception » of the Constitution of Cadiz and insisted on a specificities of the Neapolitan context, retrieving the criticism by Vincenzo Cuoco to the Francesco Mario Pagano’s Progetto di Costituzione for the 1799 Neapolitan Republic. The study aims to explain in the major events leading to the grant of the Cadiz Constitution by King Ferdinand I ; then after a brief report on the parliamentary debate, it will focus on the Pagano’s Osservazioni