Descrizione
The structure of the fountain rests on the perimeter wall of the church of Santa Caterina della Spina Corona. ,The Spina Corona Fountain is located on Giuseppina Guacci Nobile Street.
Spinacorona. Reproductions of artifacts such as ring bracelet,earrings,pendants .
The Fountain of the Zizzes “Why of the Zizzes? The allusion is very clear.
It refers to the female sculpture that sprays water from her breasts. Partenope, the Winged Siren
Above it was a spinacorona marble plaque on which was engraved the phrase “Dum Vesevi Syerena Incendia Mulcet” (While the siren softens the fire of Vesuvius).
In Naples, Partenope was revered as a patron goddess; for example, Virgil used her name in a metonymic sense
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and, from there, beginning in the early modern age, with Aragonese and Baroque historians and chroniclers.
The mermaid was adduced as an antonomastic example to exemplify the duplicitous nature of southerners or their lasciviousness
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According to the accounts of multiple authors and placed in different eras, the myth of Parthenope is placed with the origin of the city of Naples, born on the body of the beautiful.
Siren Partenope, is told as a sweet creature who was rejected by the heroic Odysseus, and for his sake died of it, being carried away by the waves on the small beach of Megaride, the place where the Cas Anello siren spinacoronaPartenope stands today,
The structure rests on the perimeter wall of the church of Santa Caterina della Spina Corona. ,The Spina Corona Fountain is located on Giuseppina Guacci Nobile Street.Spinacorona.
