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Zanmaria Millevoi, the murderous tailor from Contrada di San Mattio; Elena Sciarles, the woman burned in her house in the Chiovere di San Girolamo; Vittoria Basadonna, the noblewoman killed in the Gritti palace in San Mattio
Moisé; Giovan Battista Bombonati, the hairdresser from Vicenza who thought up the scam of the pot of spirits; Chiara Pentarina, the cook accused of having put poison in her master's broth in San Paterniano; the nameless drowned man fished out on the edge of the Ponte della Panada... are the protagonists of some crime stories that happened in Venice in the second half of the eighteenth century and of which we have news through the documents preserved in the State Archives.
Davide Busato, deepening the development of these emblematic cases, reconstructs the working methods of the police who investigated at the time of the Serenissima and the Magistrates who coordinated the investigations, giving ample emphasis to the many curious little details of daily life of the time that emerged from the reading of the interrogations.
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Zanmaria Millevoi, the murderous tailor from Contrada di San Mattio; Elena Sciarles, the woman burned in her house in the Chiovere di San Girolamo; Vittoria Basadonna, the noblewoman killed in the Gritti palace in San Mattio
Moisé; Giovan Battista Bombonati, the hairdresser from Vicenza who thought up the scam of the pot of spirits; Chiara Pentarina, the cook accused of having put poison in her master's broth in San Paterniano; the nameless drowned man fished out on the edge of the Ponte della Panada... are the protagonists of some crime stories that happened in Venice in the second half of the eighteenth century and of which we have news through the documents preserved in the State Archives.
Davide Busato, deepening the development of these emblematic cases, reconstructs the working methods of the police who investigated at the time of the Serenissima and the Magistrates who coordinated the investigations, giving ample emphasis to the many curious little details of daily life of the time that emerged from the reading of the interrogations.
Author Biography
Davide Busato was born in Venice in 1975. He is a historical researcher and collaborates with Italian and foreign universities. Since 2011 he has edited the column "Cronaca dal passato" on the information site www.dazebaonews.it. He is the author of the website www.veneziacriminale.it where the map of criminal events in Venice between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is represented. He published Metamorfosi di un litorale. Origin and development of the island of Sant'Erasmo in the lagoon of Venice (2006) with Marsilio; I Serial Killer della Serenissima. Assassins, sadists and rapists (2012) with Helvetia Editrice. As co-author: L'isola della Certosa di Venezia (2009) and Forme del vivere in laguna. Archaeology, landscape, economy of the Venice Lagoon (2011) with Centro Studi Riviera del Brenta.
Helvetia Editrice
Edizioni Helvetia was born in 1972 from an idea of the poet and musician Gianni Spagnol who, after a six-year experience in Zurich as a printer at an important publishing complex, wanted to found in Venice - between Campo San Rocco and Campo San Tomà, not far from the Frari Church - a printing house/publishing house that would promote and stimulate the historical-literary production of the Venetian and Venetian area in detail. Then, with the 90s, the company was moved to the mainland. In 2006, with the acquisition by its granddaughter Daniela Spagnol, the name changed to Helvetia Editrice and the publications continued to explore themes linked to the territory, especially in the "Rosso Veneziano" series - which gathers historical curiosities, with a "popular" and mainly narrative slant - and the "VeneziaeVenetoVivo" series - more linked to pure historical non-fiction and documentation. Enriched with non-fiction and fiction, since 2019 Helvetia has been back in the game with two series that challenge the usual comfort zone by leaving the local territory: "Taccuini d'Autore" (Author's Notebooks), which collects books on the road, texts that travel and travel along the frontier of writing; and "Nuovi Territori" (New Territories), a line created to enhance new authors and unusual topics from experimental themes.
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- Publisher Helvetia Editrice
- Publication Date June 2013
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788895215327
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleVenezia Criminale
- Original Language Authorsitalian
- Copyright Year2013
- Page size13 x 20 cm (13 x 20 cm) cm
- SeriesRosso Veneziano
- Series Part19
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