Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-13
BOsIO AND HER HUSBAND.
The Loves and Woes of Angelina
BOsiO-Her Husband.

The Loves and Woes of AngioIin"
BOsiO-Her HUSBAND.
From the New York Graphic.l
About the year l840-50, the echoes of
old Castle Garden, at the Battery, were
set flying by voice of marvellous beauty
and compass. The voice belonged to
Angelina Bosio, the Italian prima
donna, who created so great sensation
at that time in New York, and who had
been brought to this country under the
auspices of Mr.. Maretzek, the operate
manager, and had here made her first
great success. La Bosio died several
years ago in St. Petersburg, and her
memory has been actively recalled to the
minds of those who knew her init
mately, and who were conversant with
the story of her life, by the recent
death of one who occupied a curious re-
lation to this gifted woman, and who,
while legitimately married to her, was
her husband only in name. The story
of this strangely Joined couple was
strange one, and it is painful to reflect
that woman of 80 many social posi-
bilities as Angelina Bosio should have
been duped into a fraudulent marriage
by bigamous but nObly-born villain,
and eventually, to give an appearance
of legitimacy to the offspring of this pre-
tended marriage should have married
menial in her service-a man whose
only recommendation in her eyes could
have been that he loved her. M. Frederick
Gaillardet recites the Odyssey of Bosio's
married life, and his after experience of
Xindavelonis, her husband. The circum-
stances under which the cantatrice be-
. 'ame the wife of the man who was at once
her tactOtum, her courier and her cock,
,ao-s strange enough, and are knewn to
onlv few. Angelina Bosio was at Co
oonha OI = oeu. attached as prima donna to
lba curt theater, when her hand was
,sLo5 II marriage by secretary OF le-
Spanish or Spanlsh-Ameri-
san origin whom she married s1ose-
with tue observance OF all the
1roper forms, no. .twithstanding some re-
marks made by the Queen OF Denmark,
Who was not favoraLHy impressed s, wltn
his stranger, whose plSVabe repu!ai!on
vas none of the best. "nI hngloilIa
owed the man, and then, peslues' sue
was but twenty-five years oil age' As
the was bound by an engageme W G9n-
racted with the Tacon theater a ma
7ana, she stipulated that her HUSBAND
should permit her to fill this engage
nent before she should abandon the OPP |
cratic career and assume her new name.
Her diplomatic husband consented to
his, and accompanied her to the Cuban |
capital. She was then looking forward
o the birth of her child One evening, |
lfter having sung with great applause. IN
an opera, she left her dressing-room be-
mind the scenes, to return to her loge in |
he audience. There she found lady |
awaiting her, who declared to her that
she had married bigamist and that her
was null and void. AT the
same time the lady pronounced herself |
the true wife of the social adventurer,
and the mother of his two children.
Called to the presence of the accusing |
woman, the culprit confessed his guilt.
Then Angelina Indignantly drove him |
rom her presence, and for many days
a I'VE way to a violent despair, her most
,o ignant grief being caused by the re- |
le, etion that she was soon to be the
no, her of a nameless babe. 1t IS at
his stage of Angiolina's life that Am
lavelonis appears prominently upon tne
scene. As before stated he was IN her
Iervice in various capacities. de was
,ery devoted to her-with the devotion
1f man who loves the woman whom
ne serves. One day, during the sorrow
ful interval that elapsed after La Bosio' s
of her cruel betrayal, Kinda
yelon:s suddenly said to her: Senior
la. have long loved you; If my name
and my hand 40 not seem too much be-
meath you in your present condition l
offer them to you, and promise to re-
eornize your child as my own. At
6rst Angelina repulsed this offer Of
name which would cause her to descend
30 far from her social rank, but as the
lime approached when her offspring was
10 see The light she suffered greater men
tal tortures; and the struggle ended With |
tbe acceptance of the hand OF Kinda
yelonis for the sake Of the child. There
was one condition, however, that aecom-
pauied the sacrifice, and this was that
no intimacy, not even that OF a platonlc |
character, should enter the compact.
Xindavslouis consented to al her cen
ditions, hopeful probably that time their |
life in common and his own love would |
change the resolution Of Angelina, the |
vornan whom he called his wife. But
In this matter he deceived himself. She |
remained firm and inexOrAble in her
conditions. That which really gave her
COURAGE 70 persist in her resolution was
49, faet hat the twin children 70 whom 1
r. had given birth died. From that |
,;rse forth her husband, Who vas nov
nearly useless TO her even as q ser
vsrt and agent, became almost
o5;ous In her eyes His perhnacity
.nd his encroachmenta upon her
-. (. r.irs irritsted her. She Eus-