New appointment with “Io, sono Giuditta” by Assunta Mango, on December 13th at 17.45:2 pm at the De Marsico Library (Via Concezio Muzy 19, Naples), where the journey to meet the murderer, Giuditta Guastamacchia, will take place through a theatrical performance. The true face of this woman, murderer and ghost, who appears every April XNUMXth, the day of her execution, in Castel Capuano, will be revealed.
At the end of the short Parthenopean Republic, a brutal crime was committed: that of Giuditta's young husband, who was strangled, cut into pieces, boiled and with his limbs scattered in the public sewers, which earned her, her priest lover and their accomplices, hanging.
The 'historical truths', at the centre of this historical text, with: the war events, the Gran Corte della Vicaria, the Minutes found in the State Archives of Naples, the testimonies, the chronicles and the diaries, the condition of women in those years, the ecclesiastical participation with documents preserved in the Diocesan Archives of Naples, the path of the condemned, and also the conditions of death and imprisonment; all to allow the reader a clear vision of the facts.
Free admission.
Article published on 9 December 2019 - 12:13
