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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Lovely photos of Boccherini's homes, Zaqarbal!
You are lucky to have so much history and culture around you that is part of the present.
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Yeah, as they say: "
If walls could talk...". Look at this. Very, very close to Boccherini's house (the one at the left photo), almost next to it, in the same street:
That building behind me is San Plácido Convent, from the 17th century. In 1628 it was supposedly attacked by the Devil. Imagine:
possessed nuns!!
I haven't found any webpage in English about it, but
this article mentions the event.
I don't know if Boccherini knew the story, or if somehow he found inspiration in it when he composed
La casa del diavolo ("
The Devil's House").