ABSTRACT
An event of uncommon brutality even by the canons of the time, it was triggered largely by jealousy of the city's salt trade and its refusal to join France in waging war on Spain. Doria's practical economic response to jealousy of trade is curious given reigning historiography and his own earlier attacks on reason of state. Though he certainly aligned with Fnelon and the later Physiocrats in his aversion to jealousy of trade, Doria was, nonetheless, one of their greatest adversaries on the crucial issue of economic policy. Absolutist, enlightened reforms were, for Doria, an explicit response to Naples' place in the international economy and the jealousy of trade suffered by the great maritime powers, economic destitution caused political poverty almost by default. On the ambivalent history of Ephors, see similarly Wilfried Nippel, Ancient and Modern Republicanism: "Mixed Constitutions" and "Ephors"', in Biancamaria Fontana, The Invention of the Modern Republic.
