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W hile the Neapolitans were holding out against their enemy at the Porta Capuana, a strange scene was being enacted at the other side of the town, a scene that shows us in lively colours the violence
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W hile the Neapolitans were holding out against their enemy at the Porta Capuana, a strange scene was being enacted at the other side of the town, a scene that shows us in lively colours the violence
T he King of Hungary, his black flag ever borne before him, started for Naples, refusing all offered honours, and reje…
T he spectacle of this frightful punishment did not satisfy the revenge of Charles of Durazzo. Seconded by the chief-j…
T he terrible part that Charles of Durazzo was to play began as soon as this crime was accomplished. The duke left the…
E ight days after the funeral of the old queen, Bertrand of Artois came to Joan, distraught, dishevelled, in a state o…
N ight fell, and from the Molo to the Mergellina, from the Capuano Castle to the hill of St. Elmo, deep silence had su…
A s soon as the obsequies were over, Andre’s tutor hastily assembled the chief Hungarian lords, and it was decided in …
I n the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were …
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