If I were not so eager to reach the Carmine, I should certainly retrace my steps a little and go up the Strada carbonara to the Church of San Giovanni carbonara, which contains much that is interesting, and leads one straight to the tragic days of Queen Giovanna.
"Naples Past and Present"
Arthur H. Norway
The library of Seripandus was preserved in the Augustinian monastery of St. John of carbonara at Naples, but a part of it was sold to Jan de Witt, who took it to Holland, and this manuscript was among the number, and was included in the sale catalogue of De Witt's library in 1701. It was bought by Jan van der Mark of Utrecht, and on this account it is described in the Amsterdam edition of the work as the Codex Marcianus.
"Studies from Court and Cloister"
J.M. Stone
The whole game of existence is such a scramble with us: we scramble for social rank, for place, for influence, for Court favor, for patronage; and all these call for so much intrigue and plotting, that I vow to you I 'd as soon be a carbonara or a Sanfedista as the wife of an aspiring middle-class Englishman.
"The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly"
Charles James Lever