CATHEDRAL, Succorpo Or Carafa Chapel

Now let's get back to the Cathedral and continue along the right nave up to the transverse arm: here in the second chapel known as the Chapel of the Assumption, you'll find the altarpiece with The Assumption of the Virgin: a great, prestigious work by Pietro Perugino that was commissioned by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa, who you can see praying in the portrait.

The first chapel is on the left at the back of the church and is the chapel that has best preserved its original 14th-century Gothic style appearance from the Angevin age. The tombs hold the remains of some members of the Minutolo family, including that of Cardinal Filippo. A celebrated novel of Boccaccio's Decameron takes place precisely in this chapel, where a naive young man is locked in a tomb along with the cardinal who has just died!

The walls have a cycle of well-preserved frescoes from the early 1300s, which is said that Giotto himself added a few brushstrokes to....