Gianmo'ne

Gianmo'ne, PIETRO, an Italian antipapal historian, was born 7th May 1676, at Ischitella, a village of Capitanata, in Naples. A barrister by profession, practising at Naples, he spent twenty years in the composition of a magnum opus, entitled Storia Civile del Regno di Napoli (4 vols. 1723). It led to his banishment; he took refuge at Vienna, Venice, and Geneva successively. Whilst at Geneva he published a bitter attack upon the papal pretensions in a work entitled Il Triregno. Then, being decoyed into Savoy in 1736, he was arrested and confined at Turin until his death, 7th March 1748. A collection of Opere Postume appeared after his death (Lausanne, 1760); and in 1859 Mancini issued his Opere Inédite (2 vols. Turin).