GIORGIO SIMONCINI, La Grandezza delle Capitali nel Dibattito dei Rifor- misti Illuministi. Napoli, Parigi, Londra, Florence, Olschki, 2021. Pp. 150. ISBN: 978-88-222-6756-6.

Leo S. Olschki is publishing this elegant text written by Giorgio Si- moncini, an expert of historical matters related to urbanism, architecture and landscape. His expertise meets the history of economic ideas and policies as regards the debate on the dimension of towns among Eighteenth century En- lightenment’s reformers. Moreover, the author also compares Naples with similar debates in Paris and London. Naples was one of the most important centres of European Enlightenment and it was the main spring of the civil economy, whose authors we find analysed by Simoncini.