Lyndsey Dawn Mckenzie Daily Sport

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In the opinion of the Director of Museums Manzoni di Lecco

prof. Gianluigi Dhaka, when the Manzoni said in his novel to have been inspired by historical events found in the manuscript of an anonymous, told the truth, only the hero of those events was his great-grandfather, whose name was Mary James, who lived in the area of \u200b\u200bLecco in the first half of the seventeenth century. The documents are in the family of the writer.

Here is the story that almost begins around 1610. Lecco and Valsassina were the zones of maximum production of iron around the Duchy Lombardo. Two prominent families, the Manzoni in Lecco and Barzio (headed by James just Mary) and Arrigoni of Introbio (led by Emilio), controlled the entire production of iron mines and foundries of Valsassina workshops to produce muskets and cannon balls. They had a lot of employees, very strong financial resources and solid connections with the political, administrative and judicial. Each made use of a true legion of "good" talks aimed at resolving the business with the weapons of the threat of kidnapping and even murder. The two families were the sole control of the blast furnace of Premana, a structure which employed 150 people.

In the State are the acts of two long and complex legal proceedings. One concerns the procedure for murder against Mary James, accused I did kill a Arrigoni, a women's issue. In the other accused person is always Mary James, but this time on charges of Arrigoni is to be an infector, that he had sent around the Monatti to anoint people or things with infective material, to destroy the family of the Arrigoni ( the plague broke out in Milan and Lecco in 1630). · Was the Senate of Milan who, concerned about the spread of the plague, the lawyer Marco Antonio Bossi commissioned to conduct a detailed investigation. Monatti three were arrested and subjected to torture, confessed who he was the instigator. At the end of the long trial they were convicted and executed, but Mary James, with its guards, managed to get by. The court had decided a charge of investigations from which it turned out he had been the victim of the rivalry of Arrigoni. But these did not surrender in 1640 and finally managed to dull the Manzoni.

Now the similarities with the novel are very clear: *

almost all of the facts narrated are the same;
* sites are the same;
* like the protagonists of the events and characters supporting actors;
* the same historical period;
* the similarities stand out especially with the first draft of the novel and the history of the infamous column;
defense attorney James * Maria, describing Emilio Arrigoni, use phrases that are the same Manzoni uses to describe the count of the churchyard in Fermo and Lucia;
* Giacomo Maria's behavior is identical to that of Don Rodrigo,
* tales of the plague are similar;
* description of how it is decided the sentence to James Mora died in the infamous column is identical to that which gives the Bossi as a memorial to the ruling of the three Monatti.