The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-12 00:00:00

ITALIAN JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.

ROME, Jan. 31.—A tragical specimen of Italian
jealousy took place in the beginning of this week
at the Pope's favourite summer residence, the once
famous but now deserted sea-coast town of Porto
d'Anzio. The women of that and the neighbour-
ing town ofisjettuno are celebrated for their beauty,
but the charms of a young girl, the daughter of a
fisherman of Porto d'Anzio, have for some time
pact entitled her.to a pre-eminent rank even in that
land of beauties. A young man belonging to a
noble family of Orvieto, whilst casually sojourning
in Porto d'Anzio, became enamoured of the fisher-
man's daughter to such a degree as to overlook all
differences of rank, and to wish for a union with
the object of his passion ; but his parents put a
stop to his matrimonial intentions by suddenly
summoning him back to Orvieto, and keeping him
there in expectation of some more suitable project.
The young girl, thus unwillingly abandoned by her
lover, was soon after courted by one of her own
townsmen, quite a youth, and son of the municipal
secretary, who professed the most ardent at-
tachment to her, and offered to marry her, al-
though totally unprepared to meet the expenses of
the matrimonial state. Whilst these unsatis-
factory propositions were
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man's daughter. This piece of mtelhgence was
favourably received by the old man and the young
girl, and their expectations were realised towards
the end of last week by seeing the amorous count
arrive from Rome, laden with presen's for his in-
tended bride. The necessary preliminaries having
been summarily arrange", the impatient lovers
were united in the holy bonds of matrimony on
Sunday morning last, the bride being fashionably
attired in the wedding dress and bonnet brought
by her husband for the occasion. It would be
superfluous to hint at the rage and disappointment
of the discarded suitor. He passed his morning in
smoking and playing at billiards, hardly replying to
the sarcastic remarks of his friends, who expatiated
upon the beauty of the bride, and the becominguess
of her new dress. , In the afternoon, however, he
was roused by seeing the bridegroom and bride, with
her father and little brother, set out for Nettuuo,
a neighbouring townetnaebltlohhiligotilltlds we fomomroit hlieliessrdtihstaatnht,eiwnasacarettino, or chaise. He immediately left the
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going to shoot a hare, whose heart and liver he in-
tended to have for supper that very evening. Thus
armed, he proceeded towards Nettuuo, and waited
f r his victims at a turn of the road between the
batteries and the Villa Dora. The bridal party
meanwhile, returning gaily from a visit to Net-
tuno and the church of San Rocco, came in sight
of the assassin, standing with his gun in the middle
of the road. The bride was seized with a panic,
and exclaimed, " Oh, Dio ! There is Paoluecio I"
But her husband had reassured her, and told her
there was nothing to be alarmed at, as a proof of
which he stopped his horse on reaching his rival,
and said to him, "Good evening, Paolo ; where are
you going 7" to which the other replied, "Do you
not see ? lam going to shoot a hare," presenting
at the same time his piece at the bride. She
shrieked out, " Spare our lives, Paolo 1" Her
husband tine m• his arms round her, but Paolo
sternly replied, "It is too late !" and fired imme-
diately, shot the bride through the heart with
a bullet, and broke her husband's arm with
three slugs, with which the first barrel
of his gun was loaded. Seeing that his rival
was not killed, Paolo lirel his other barrel
without effect, and was proceeding coolly to reload,
when the count urged his horse into a gallop, and
made at once for Porto d'Anzio. The murderer, a
youth not 18 years old, then struck into the forest,
and made the best of his way to the outlaws'
asylum, at Campo Mortl, avast estate belonging tl
the chapter of St. Peter, and situated in such a pes-
tiferous region of the Campagna, that it has always
been considered as a sanctuary for murderers and
robbers, who have remained time out of mind un-
molested within its precincts, and employed as
labourers for want of more honest workmen-
Paoluccio, having the additional advantage of being
godon of the archpriest of Campo Morto, doubt-
less thought himself quite safe in this retreat ; but
the Government has lately found that the bandit
"tenants of the sanctuary are too much on the in-
crease, or the malaria fever not sufficiently active
in thinning their ranks, so that the police autho-
rities are not so scrupulous in observing the tradi-
tional immunities of the place. The consent of the
Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's hiving been pre-
viously obtained, a detlehment of sbirri set out
from Rome yesterday morning to make an inroad
into the crime-haunted purlieus of Campo Morto
in search of the youtbfol murderer, who so ruth-
lessly carried to their extremes the violent passions
of amore and vendetta.—Correspondent of Daily
.'Yews.