1828, gli occhi degli Asburgo sulla rivolta del Cilento. Polizia, cospirazione politica, brigantaggio

The article examines from the perspective of Austrian diplomacy the revolt in Cilento (1828), where the political conspiracy of the Filadelfi, a revolutionary secret society, was intertwined with the action of local brigand bands. The analysis is carried out in the light of a renewed historiography about transnational security systems, crime fighting and brigandage in post-Napoleonic Europe. Three points worthy of reflection emerge: 1. the representation of the crisis offered to the Austrians by the Bourbon officials; 2. the Philadelphian sect, a reality in Southern Italy with indefinable foreign ties; 3. the mixture of political conspiracy and common crime, heralding a rhetorical construction of political subversives as criminals; and the methods used by the government of the Two Sicilies to eradicate them.