Murder and Media in the New Rome: The Fadda Affair
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"This book explores a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when the bloody killing of a war hero triggered a national spectacle. A young southern wife's murder of her impotent soldier husband exploded into the first great "media circus" in the new nation of Italy. The trial of the widow and her acrobat lover shocked the young nation not only with its gruesome details, but also because masses of women flocked to the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0230108369
ISBN13:9780230108363
Release Date:January 2011
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"
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