Naples & Campania - Southern Italy - page 84

sacristy is equally noteworthy, featuring a beautiful ceiling fresco by Francesco Solimena
and 45 coffins of Aragon princes and other nobles.
In the Cappellone del Crocifisso, the 13th-century Crocifisso tra La Vergine e San Gio-
vanni is said to have spoken to St Thomas Aquinas, asking: 'Bene scripsisti di me ,
Thoma; quam recipies a me pro tu labore mercedem?' (You've written good things about
me, Thomas, what will you get in return?) Thomas' diplomatic reply? 'Domine, non aliam
nisi te' (Nothing if not you, O Lord).
Soaring outside on Piazza di San Domenico Maggiore is the Guglia di San Domenico MAP
GOOGLE MAP , a 17th-century obelisk designed by Cosimo Fanzago, Francesco Antonio Pic-
chiatti and Domenico Antonio Vaccaro.