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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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said it was haunted by ghosts. He himself had
seen when he was a boy a tall monk leaning over
the parapet and some sailors coming up the steps
late one night had heard bells ringing in the
chapel. The reason for this, explained Mastro
Vincenzo, was that when Timberio had his
palace there he had fatto ammazzare Gesù
Cristo, put Jesus Christ to death, and since then
his damned soul came back now and then to ask
forgiveness from the monks who were buried
under the floor in the chapel. People also said
that he used to come there in the shape of a big
black snake. The monks had been ammazzati
by a brigand called Barbarossa, who had boarded
the island with his ships and carried away into
slavery all the women who had taken refuge up
there in the castle overhead, that is why it was
called Castello Barbarossa. Padre Anselmo, the
hermit, who was a learned man and besides a
relation of his, had told him all this and also
about the English who had turned the chapel
into a fortress and who in their turn had been
ammazzati by the French.

“Look!” said Mastro Vincenzo, pointing to a
heap of bullets near the garden wall and “look”
he added, picking up an English soldier’s brass
button. The French, he continued, had placed
a big gun near the chapel, and had opened fire
on the village of Capri held by the English.
“Well done,” he chuckled. “The Capresi are
all bad people.” Then the French had turned
the chapel into a powder magazine, that was
why it was still called La Polveriera. Now it
was nothing but a ruin, but it had proved very

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