Through a case study of a group of Neapolitan political activists incarcerated in Naples after the 1848 Revolution, this article aims to rescue the Italian convicts’ experience from its subsidiary status, presenting the prisons as a site of struggle and in particular highlighting the international, European dimension of political imprisonment in the nineteenth century. I argue that together with the exiled, political prisoners also acted as transnational actors of the Risorgimento; they aroused the interest of both public opinion and the world of diplomacy and were perceived as a humanitarian cause. Neapolitan political prisoners became spokespersons of their national and political cause abroad, had a clear agency and exploited European public opinion. This study will thus explore the dynamics of the Risorgimento from a transnational perspective, as well as in relation to British and French imperialistic policies in the Mediterranean, the international de-legitimization of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and more generally in terms of foreign humanitarian interventions in the nineteenth century and the role of political prisoners. The Neapolitan dungeons were not significantly different from those of other European states; however, they became the target of international diplomacy showing how Naples was considered somewhat in between European and non-European states.

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意大利 Mezzogiorno 的政治犯：一个 19 世纪的跨国问题

通过对 1848 年革命后被关押在那不勒斯的一群那不勒斯政治活动家的案例研究，本文旨在从其附属地位中拯救意大利囚犯的经历，将监狱呈现为斗争场所，并特别强调国际、欧洲19 世纪政治监禁的维度。我认为，与流放者一起，政治犯也充当了复兴运动的跨国行动者；它们引起了公众舆论和外交界的兴趣，被视为一项人道主义事业。那不勒斯政治犯成为他们在国外的国家和政治事业的代言人，拥有明确的机构并利用欧洲舆论。因此，本研究将从跨国角度探讨 Risorgimento 的动态，以及英国和法国在地中海的帝国主义政策、两西西里王国的国际合法化，以及更普遍的 19 世纪外国人道主义干预和政治犯的作用。那不勒斯的地牢与其他欧洲国家的地牢没有太大区别；然而，他们成为国际外交的目标，表明那不勒斯是如何被视为介于欧洲和非欧洲国家之间的。那不勒斯的地牢与其他欧洲国家的地牢没有太大区别；然而，他们成为国际外交的目标，表明那不勒斯是如何被视为介于欧洲和非欧洲国家之间的。那不勒斯的地牢与其他欧洲国家的地牢没有太大区别；然而，他们成为国际外交的目标，表明那不勒斯是如何被视为介于欧洲和非欧洲国家之间的。