We remain in Piazza Navona, in via dell'Anima, the house on the right side of the Sant'Agnese in Agone's church is infested by the Constanza's ghost .
Constance Conti De Cupis moved to this palace after her marriage with the nephew of Cardinal Giandomenico De Cupis's nephew.
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| Constanza Conti De Cupis |
She was a woman of extraordinary beauty and in particular for the perfection of her hands, an artist made a cast that she exhibited in his shop.
Everyone admired those stupendous hands; but one day a foreigner or (according to another version) a friar, after having seen them, affirmed that the woman, to whom they belonged, would soon lose them.
The people informed Constanza about this obscure presage and it shocked her deeply, she immediately demanded that the cast be destroyed, and since that day she would not leave the house any more, she was scared she could be involved in some accident.
She did not leave the house and spent her time sewing. One day a needle stung her finger and the small wound generated an infection, which spread to the arm.
The doctors could not do anything to save her hand, it was now swollen and covered with sores. They amputated it..
This operation, however, could not save her, and after the unfortunate Constanza died of septicemia.
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| Representation of Costanza's hand |
Legend has it that from that moment, when the moon lights up the windows of the building, the light reflected on the glass reveals a pale five-fingered shape, visible from the square below.
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