Storie e leggende di un principe e della sua cappella. Da Raimondo di Sangro a Benedetto Croce

The present article deals with the Prince of Sansevero, Raimondo di Sangro, and legends, often linked to real happenings, which over time were superimposed on this personage and his reknowned family chapel. To a great extent his reputation was of his own making, exagerated by the imagination of the populace and amplified by newspaper articles, brief essays, and stories by Southern Italian intellectuals in the late 19th century. Capuana, Colonna di Stigliano, Di Giacomo, and Croce, who were the foremost voices of the time in the literature of the South of Italy, wrote about the Prince and his mysteries. Lured by suggestions from the place he built and dwelt in, they too contributed to a myth that still today fascinates tourists and curious visitors from all over the world.