![]() The entrance to the alley from via Duomo. | |
Type | Alley |
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Length | 1 |
Area | Decumano Inferiore |
Location | Between Via dei Tribunali and Via Forcelle, in Naples, Campania, Italy |
Quarter | Pendino |
The Vico, and Vicoletto, of Zuroli, more commonly called Vicolo dei Zuroli [1] [2] (formerly Vico de' Boccapianola) are two historic alleys located in the historic center of the city of Naples, they are located near Via Forcella (Furcella in Neapolitan dialect ), near the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia, art museum and historical place of Naples since 2005, between Via dei Tribunali and Via Vicaria Vecchia, in the Pendino district . [3]
In the Vicolo dei Zuroli there is an ancient noble palace, which previously belonged to the noble Boccapianola family and subsequently acquired, restored and enlarged by another noble Neapolitan family, that of Zurolo family from which they took their name.
They converge in Via Carminiello ai Mannesi, where the archaeological excavations of San Carminiello ai Mannesi are located, from which the street takes its name.
The Vico, and the Vicoletto, of Zuroli [4] [5] are located behind Via Duomo, in the Decumani area, the ancient center of the city. The alley is located between the Decumano Maggiore in the upper part of Via dei Tribunali and the Decumano Inferior (more commonly known as Spaccanapoli) in the lower part of Via Vicaria Vecchia, in the ancient Capuana district (so called because there was a road that led to the Campania city of Capua [6] ), the current Pendino district.
The Greek system provided for a strictly orthogonal road scheme in which three streets, the widest (about six metres [7] ) and largest, parallel to each other, called plateiai (singular: plateia), crossed the ancient urban center dividing it into four parts. Furthermore, these main streets were cut perpendicularly, from north to south, by other smaller streets (about three meters wide) called stenopoi (singular: stenopos) or more improperly cardini, which streets today constitute the alleys of the historic city center, these streets were intersected perpendicularly by stenopoi in a north–south direction, still recognizable today in streets such as: Via Atri, Vico Giganti, Via Duomo, Vico Zuroli (plural) seu Zurolo (singular) and many others. [8]
In ancient times the place was called Boccapianoli, from the surname of the noble Boccapianola family who once lived there. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
In the year 1301 Giovanni Boccapianola had a noble palace built near the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia, by the architect Giacomo De Sanctis, in pure Gothic style. [14]
The noble Zurolo family then found a home there, between the 14th and 15th centuries, obtained the seat of Porta di Capuana as for the other Neapolitan noble families, [15] they then acquired the noble palace tha belong to the Boccapianola family, from this noble prosapia, structural changes and expansion. [16] [17] [18]
Subsequently, the toponym of this place was replaced by Vico or Vicoletto dei Boccapianoli into Vico, and Vicoletto, dei Zuroli from which it took its name from the aforementioned palace rebuilt by the Zurolo family of which some exponents most representative lived there. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
It is attested that a small branch of the Greco-Roman aqueduct of Naples also passed through the Vico dei Zuroli, from Via dei Tribunali to Via Forcella, making it a circuit; the water conveyed was called acqua della Bolla, because it was also called Polla from the hill that rose underground. [24]
In 1898 Almerinda d'Ettorre, a young 25-year-old woman who lived in Vico dei Zuroli at number 2, began to have apocalyptic visions of the future of the world and then made religious prophecies, also claiming to be in direct contact with Jesus Christ, the which would have foretold her own death and resurrection, which should have occurred on 10 August of that same year.
Arriving at the fateful 10 August, nothing of what she predicted happened, nor did she perish at the hands of God. At the end of the episode, the Catholic Church defined the case of Almerinda d'Ettorre as a phenomenon of demonic possession. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]
A summary of the most important events in the history of the noble family.
The noble Boccapianola family previously lived in these alleys.
Here mention is made of Vico de' Boccapianola, so called, for the ancient home of this family.
In the year 1301 Giovanni Boccapianola had a noble palace built near the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)The toponym, which goes from Via dei Tribunali to Via Vicaria Vecchia, takes its name from Zurolo, also known in the area as Zurlo (another common form) or Zuroli (in the plural), who once lived there.
The location of the Zuroli palace is the Vico con Vicoletto, from which the toponym takes its name from the early medieval period.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)The entire story of the visionary Armelinda d'Ettorre who lived in Vico, and Vicoletto, of the Zuroli, later declared by the Catholic Church as a case of mass hysteria.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)In the heart of Naples, precisely in the Forcella district, stands Vico dei Zuroli, a very well-known street, but this fame is not associated with the noble family from which it takes its name, but rather with an episode that occurred at the end of the 19th century.
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