>>212267814The count did not die in battle, but was been prisoner by the Turks and later ransomed by his daughter, Maria Balsa, in the meantime adopted by a family from Naples, a city where she would have taken refuge precisely to save herself from Turkish persecution.
Maria Balsa then brought her father Vlad to Italy and, upon his death, had him buried in the tomb of her father-in-law, Matteo Ferrillo, which is located in the Turbolo chapel, in Santa Maria la Nova. It is here that the mysterious inscription was found, apparently dating back to around the sixteenth century, which has now been deciphered.
The mysterious inscription would be a funeral eulogy for Vlad III of Wallachia, who went down in history as Dracula thanks to the Irish writer Bram Stoker who, in 1897, was inspired by him for the protagonist of his famous novel.
>The idea that Dracula is buried in Naples was born in 2014 when some Italian scholars, supported by the opinions of experts from the University of Tallinn, came to this conclusion mainly on the basis of some decorations present on the tomb, in particular a dragon and some symbols of Egyptian origin.