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A historical true-crime saga chronicles the life of Maria Barbella, a young Italian immigrant who was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for the murder of her ex-lover and whose plight launched a desperate campaign to save her from the electric chair. Tour. IP.
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The Trials of Maria Barbella : The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passion
author
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Pucci, Idanna.
publisher
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Four Walls Eight Windows
isbn10 | asin
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1568580614
print isbn13
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9781568580616
ebook isbn13
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9780585232171
language
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English
subject
Crimes of passion--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Murder--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Trials (Murder)--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Capital punishme
publication date
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1996
lcc
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HV6053.P83 1996eb
ddc
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364.1/523/097471
subject
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Crimes of passion--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Murder--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Trials (Murder)--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Case studies, Capital punishme
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The Trials of Maria Barbella
The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passion
By Idanna Pucci
Translated by Stefania Fumo
Four Walls Eight Windows New York / London
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1996 Idanna Pucci English translation 1996 Four Walls Eight Windows, Inc. First published as Il Fuoco dell'Anima.
Published in the United States by: FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS 39 West 14th Street, Rm. 503 New York, N.Y. 10011
U.K. offices: Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround 27 Horsell Road London, N51 XL, England
First printing February 1996.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a data base or other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passion/ by Idanna Pucci; translated by Stefania Fumo
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-56858-061-4
1. Crimes of passionNew York (N.Y.)History19th centuryCase Studies. 2. MurderNew York (N.Y.)History19th centuryCase studies. 3. Trials (Murder)New York (N.Y.)History19th centuryCase Studies. 4. Barbella, Maria. 6. Brazza, Countess di, b. 1862. I. Title HV6053.P83 1996 95-30008 364.1'523'097471-dc20 CIP
Text design by Acme Art, Inc. Printed in the United States
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This book is dedicated to:
My godchildren: Fiona McGarry, Adrian Hubert, Emmina Bini, and Kyra Ward who are still too young to understand that all stories are not fairytales and that many stories do not end.
And to my mentor and wonderful friend, the late Professor Barbara Stoler Miller, who continues to inspire and encourage me.
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De lo que fui no tengo sino estas marcas crueles porqu aquellos dolores confirman mi existencia.
Of what I was, I bear only these cruel scars, because these hurts confirm my very existence. Pablo Neruda
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Prologue
The pursuit of the past can sometimes seem an adversarial task in which our opponents precede us by several lifetimes, capitalizing on their advantage, misplacing and destroying clues. Such an adversary is the drunken Austrian soldier sleeping away the night of December 17th, 1917, on the enormous Venetian carpet of my ancestral home. His garrison has occupied the estate.
Dominated by the ruins of a tenth century castle, the grounds of Brazz are laden with snow. Nearby is the chapel, where years later I was baptized and where, in turn, I baptized my doll. Except for the creaking of branches under the white weight, all is silent. The only wakeful presence is the ember of my adversary's cigarette burning the eighteenth century carpet. Soon a beastly fire explodes in the white landscape. It does not spread to the park, but the villa is consumed and with it all of Cora Slocomb di Brazz's possessions.
The fire destroys the diaries she kept as a child in New Orleans and those she wrote later as a woman of split nationality. Memorabilia is lost: her portrait as the Queen of Carnival in 1881, her wedding pictures, her correspondence.
I was named Idanna after my maternal grandmother, the only child of Cora Slocomb and Detalmo di Brazza, and until recently I knew little more than that about Cora. I was born in Brazz, Italy, near
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Udine, in the great white villa that was rebuilt after the fire, but I was removed from that enchanted domain, and from my mother, at an early age. As an old Gypsy had predicted, circumstances forced my mother to sail to another continent and abandon everything she loved: she too left Brazz.
Each September, caravans of Gypsies migrating south to the Camargue from Hungary, would camp for a few nights outside our gates. Hand in hand my mother and I would hurry out to visit them. I would sit beside her while her palms were being read, under the shade of an acacia tree, intent on every word.
These occasions provided my first intimations of the wider world, a place made in the image of its transient narrators, mysteriously governed by "adventure" and "destiny." Filled with wonder, I too stretched out my three-year-old palms to be examined by the old woman. She pronounced her judgment: I, too, would be uprooted.
The notion of "destiny" helped me to accept my mother's mysterious departure for Africa. In Florence, where I grew up in my father's home near the Duomo, the severance from my maternal branch was complete. The oblivion of my great-grandmother Cora was final: her possessions had burned and her name was not mentioned.
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