Role in Literature
- Alexandre Dumas, père wrote a romance, Joan of Naples, part of his eight-volume series Celebrated Crimes (1839–40).
- A fictionalised account of her life can also be found in the novel Queen of the Night by Alan Savage.
- László Passuth wrote a novel Napolyi Johanna (Joanna of Naples, 1968) about her life.
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