L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, contemporaneo romanzo intimo-passionale [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Contemporary Intimate-Passionate Novel]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1944.
Title
L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, contemporaneo romanzo intimo-passionale [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Contemporary Intimate-Passionate Novel]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1944.
Description
See the entry for the 1912 facsimile copy of the original of this work for the full story of Vincenzo Paternò del Cugno, a Sicilian baron who killed his married lover, the Countess Giulia, in Rome in March 1911, when she refused to give him any more money and broke off the extra-marital relationship.
Having somehow learned about the publication in the U.S., thirty years after the fact, or perhaps of this 1944 version, Paternò tried to cash in on it: he wrote to De Martino first to tell him that some details of the events were incorrect. But it soon became clear that a little help getting back on his feet again would go a long way: the last letter in the series is Paternò’s thank you to De Martino for a new suit and other gifts.
Given the origins of his affair with the Contessa in his constant need for money, the denouement of Paternò’s life story in his haggling over money with “his” publisher, an Italian immigrant in America, seems fitting or at least ironic.
Having somehow learned about the publication in the U.S., thirty years after the fact, or perhaps of this 1944 version, Paternò tried to cash in on it: he wrote to De Martino first to tell him that some details of the events were incorrect. But it soon became clear that a little help getting back on his feet again would go a long way: the last letter in the series is Paternò’s thank you to De Martino for a new suit and other gifts.
Given the origins of his affair with the Contessa in his constant need for money, the denouement of Paternò’s life story in his haggling over money with “his” publisher, an Italian immigrant in America, seems fitting or at least ironic.
Creator
[Antonio De Martino]
Duchessa X
Publisher
Italian Book Co.
Date
1944
Format
21.5 x 14.5cm; 160 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
[Antonio De Martino] and Duchessa X, “L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, contemporaneo romanzo intimo-passionale [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Contemporary Intimate-Passionate Novel]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1944.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 19, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/145.
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