ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book shows that reconciliation was a routine and mundane part of the administration of seventeenth-century Naples and that at every stage of the disputing process there were pressures, social and financial, for the parties to come to an accommodation. It also shows how the state profited from the civilization of the criminal process. The book discusses French noblemen dedicated a great deal of time patching up their quarrels, as their memoirs reveal. It highlights the continuity of papal policy and how it re-asserted its influence and prestige in the wake of the Reformation by reasserting its traditional role as mediator of princely disputes, being padre commie of all Catholic princes. The book analyses a particular moment of crisis for the monarchy at the end of the sixteenth century.
