San Giovanni a Carbonara
Gothic church holding the tomb of a royal favorite stabbed to death by knights of his own queen.
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This guide to San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples traces the rise of Sergianni Caracciolo, favorite of Queen Giovanna the Second, who came to run the kingdom's finances and politics almost single-handedly. You'll hear how his growing power unsettled the queen who had once loved him, and how four of her own knights came for him one August night in 1432 at Castel Capuano. His body was brought here the next day, and his son Troiano commissioned the tomb behind the altar in the Caracciolo del Sole chapel in answer.
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