medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, February 21, 2007, at 12:29 pm, Paul Chandler wrote:
> To save a lot of hunting and scrolling here is a direct link to the
> photo of
> the cemetery of Parkminster Charterhouse :
> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/722/3118/1600/cemetery.0.jpg
> Naples certainly wins the cemetery-tending medal.
Ah, but the one at Naples is no longer an _active_ cemetery. In 1800 the monastery fell afoul of the first Bourbon restoration (the monks were thought to have supported the Republic of 1799) and the inhabitants were extruded though the buildings remained church property. During the Napoleonic period (1805-15), most of the kingdom's monasteries were secularized and their libraries were pillaged (some of San Martino's books wound up in the Royal Library and are now in its successor, the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli). San Martino's buildings underwent a variety of secular uses before the Carthusians were able to reoccupy the site after the second Bourbon restoration. The monastery was suppressed for good in the early 1860s, after Italian unification. The buildings and grounds (the latter recently restored) are the property of the Italian state.
I have never seen that patch of ground look so green. The photograph
http://www.italie1.com/images/napsmartino.jpg
must have been taken in spring and after a good watering (note the puddles next to the balustrade).
Best again,
John Dillon
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