newyorker:

A Gesualdo Photojournal

In this week’s issue of the magazine, Alex Ross writes about the diabolically inventive Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who acquired eternal notoriety on the night of October 16, 1590, when he slaughtered his wife and her lover in a palace apartment in Naples. The murders were long thought to have taken place in the Palazzo Sansevero, on Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, in Naples. Werner Herzog shot scenes for his Gesualdo film, “Death for Five Voices,” at the above location. Recent researches suggest, however, that the murders happened in an auxiliary palace… For the rest of Ross’s photojournal: http://nyr.kr/vaGKnc