On January 12, 2007, Angelo Izzo was sentenced to life in prison for premeditated double homicide, a sentence also confirmed on appeal. We discuss the passage from sexual desire to violence, from violence to torture, from torture to murder. If youre sick of this. They got married in March 2010 at the Velletri prison. It seems that for Albinati, the unearthing of these ideas is work enough, truth enough, however nauseatingly familiar they may be. The criminal began to benefit from it starting on December 27. If a little lamb doesnt get lost, it cant be searched for, found, and saved; unless a pilgrim wanders off the straight path. Particularly shocking, and immediately felt to be an ominous sign of things to come, was that all three rapists came from well-to-do families, while two had recently completed their education at an expensive, highly respectable boys-only Catholic school run by an order of priests dedicated to the Holy Virgin. Shame on you Italy. The chosen victim is a boy suspected of being gay. 20 Reviews Hide Spoilers Sort by: Filter by Rating: 6/10 Initially intriguing, but ultimately unbalanced and disappointing. Albinatis mind ranges far and wide. On the 29th of September at 6:20 P.M., Izzo, Guido, Colasanti and Lopez arrived at Villa Moresca, located on Via della Vasca Moresca in the Punta Rossa area of Cape Circeo, in the San Felice Circeo municipality, about 100km south of Rome. Not until page 153 does it get a first, brief mention; then, just as the name of the school, San Leone Magno, is reduced throughout the novel to the letters SLM, so the Circeo Rape/Murder, the event that gave rise to this book, becomes hereinafter the CR/M. From this point on, the two abbreviations will call to each other over a thousand pages and more, like the quantities of some fatal equation. He writes in the first person and uses his own name. Heightened sensuality breeds mental proliferation. The two young women realized they were trapped. Translated from the Italian. Guido's prison sentence was modified on appeal on 28 October 1980, being changed from life imprisonment to 30 years, following a declaration of repentance and compensation of 100 million lire to the Lopez family. school. Rosaria Lopez's death and the torture of Donatella Colasanti ignited a debate that only concluded in 1996 when sexual violence was finally considered a crime against the person. The others whip his bare back with knotted cords. In 2007, he was sentenced again to life imprisonment. La procura: Rossella Corazzin", "Where is Killer and Rapist Angelo Izzo Now? . This heinous incident created huge havoc in the minds of the people. $23.99. The Bible is full of sexual violence, he reminds us, often left scandalously unpunished. Only rampaging narrative. Masochism, or self-punishment, he claims, is the characteristic impulse of the middle classes. . Certainly its evident in every turn of this novel. Letizia Lopez, Rosaria's sister, reacted negatively to this development, complaining in particular about Guido's long periods of absconding abroad, the absence of any signs of repentance on his part, and judging his detention regime to be insufficiently rigorous. In 1993, after getting released from prison in Alexandria using a permit, Angelo flew to France, only to get captured. Its bad form to criticize a book for what it does not do. Sex, violence, and the crime that defined modern Italy, Two thousand feet under the sea in a homemade submarine. Even a third girl had been invited, but she had decided not to go to the appointment. Angelo and Papis relationship then went through a troubled phase and the latter revealed in April 2011 that she will legally dissolve her marriage with the prisoner. He sees womans physical weakness as a sin to be expiated. When observing the Italian habit of pruning trees to the bone, he is sure it is a form of punishment for their vitality. Or, finally, through violence: Only destruction allows transcendence., Story after fascinating story culminates in moments of transcendence. The girls were invited to a party held in the villa of one of Guido and Izzos friend, Andrea Ghira. Donatella screamed and managed to draw the attention of a watchman, who alerted the police. This was the same year that one of the criminals killed again. He run off to Argentina and then to Panama, where he was captured in 1994. I should have turned it off but there I sat watching the horrible brutality toward the two girls. The girls went to the appointment at four in the afternoon on September 29, 1975, and only Izzo and Guido were present. But in its indifference to mounting any kind of meaningful challenge to misogyny or its rhetoric so easy, so satisfying to accomplish The Catholic School too often reinscribes the authority of the arguments trotted out by these killers. But self-accusation is a pleasure, hence possibly itself a sin. are now practically null. Yet children are more financially dependent than ever. wont serve any purpose later on. But then. Terror in Rome ( Italian: I violenti di Roma bene ), also known as Violence for Kicks, is a 1976 Italian "poliziottesco" film. . At school, little help can be expected from the priests, whose presumed celibacy both fascinates and horrifies the boys. For much of the book there is only one recurring female character, a lunch lady of sorts who remains unnamed although her enormous shapeless bosom merits mention. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. As it is based on a true event and court case it is known that one of the girls died and one never recover from the brutality. We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure. Body believed to be that of Andrea Ghira to be exhumed in Spain. I recommend not letting wives or daughters watch this film. . However, during his service he developed a drug problem and, on 28 May 1980, began a six-month sentence in prison in Cadiz for an "alleged crime against public health". Pik, who has barely spoken to a girl before, is thrilled with the thought that they are going to fuck. Albinati cant dissuade him. What happened did not affect my passion. . Since Albinati has warned us that he has changed the names of those involved in the crime, every school companion he describes becomes a possible murderer. Within hours two of the men have been arrested. Andrea Ghirawas a wealthy young man, son of a famous Roman businessman. Angelo Izzo and Gianni Guido were arrested within a few hours, while Andrea Ghira ran away, alerted by a tip; the next morning the Carabinieri discovered Andrea's mother and brother near their Circeo's house and hypothesized that Andrea had warned them and asked for help to make any traces disappear. After getting sentenced to life, Angelo reportedly collaborated with officials to provide information concerning several murders and crimes, such as the Piazza Fontana massacre, Bologna massacre, Piazza Della Loggia massacre, etc., upon garnering the same from his fellow far-right inmates. The Catholic School, nimbly translated by Antony Shugaar, won the Strega Prize, Italys top literary honor. All this would be entertaining, and no more than ordinarily disquieting, were it not for the terrible crime that hangs over the book. . The men told them that they would meet another friend there and then they would all go to Lavinio together later; after a few hours spent chatting and listening to music, suddenly Guido and Izzo began to make explicit sexual advances to the girls, who did not comply, provoking a furious reaction: [] suddenly, one of them pulled out his gun. Of his closest friend, Arbus, the kind of genius who never needs to study, we hear that one of the few things [he] did study, and systematically, were the different ways of killing people. When the young Albinati visits his home, finding a ravishing but quite emotionless sister and a provocative mother who humiliates her acned son to flirt with his friend, it all begins to look extremely foreboding. Colasanti and Lopez took a liking to the two boys, who seemed polite and irreproachable. He has spent most of his life in male-only spaces: years in Catholic school, a stint of mandatory service in the army and more than two decades teaching in a prison. The Circeo massacre, as the rape and murder would come to be known, shook Italian society. But the main thrust of the book is now to establish the crime as emblematic of its era, in Italy in general and in this area of Rome in particular, where quite suddenly there was a spate of violent crime. Her last words wereLets fight for the truth.. Subscribe for less than $2 an issue. The survivor speaks of three young aggressors and a villa by the sea. Then they drove to Rome. Her friend Donatella Colasanti survived but never recovered and died without witnessing true justice. With a remarkable cast, this movie is a must-watch for those of us who love exciting thrillers. All sex is violent. The apartment where the author used to study with the killers brother is opposite his new home. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. If we want to know which parts of his novel are made up, he suggests, we should look out for the ones that dont sound quite as absurd as the others. The crime as told is utterly absurdhence very much for real. As per reports, they also tried to kill Donatella by strangling her with a belt. . In April 2005, he killed Maria Carmela and her daughter Valentina Maiorano, the wife and daughter of Giovanni Maiorano, whom he met in prison, in Ferrazzano. In 1982, Ghira was assigned to Special Operations in Malaga before being sent to Melilla, where he suffered "numerous penalties for possession and consumption of drugs." When a student has his glasses broken by older bullies, a new pair is delivered a few days later by the school custodian. Carlo invited the girls to spend an afternoon at a bar: on that occasion he introduced them to Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo; Rosaria and Donatella immediately took a liking to the boys, who showed a polite and nice behaviour. In 2005 Donatella said in a interview about her life after the crime: I've always loved beautiful things, music. He fantasizes about punishing fellow Italians who double-park their cars or dont pick up their dogs shit from the sidewalk. In January 1977 they took a prison guard hostage and attempted to escape from prison, without success. just skip, Albinati advises. The case involved three men who kidnapped and raped two young women, one of whom later died. Andrea Ghira often proclaimed to be an admirer of Jacques Berenguer, the leader of the Marseillaise Clan (mafia criminal organization). During his trial, Izzo admitted that he and his friends had used false names on purpose because they had been previously involved in acts of sexual violence and wanted to cover their tracks.[1]. More and more he is present as writer rather than schoolboy, as a man wrestling with his past and seeking to understand the world that made him what he is. an impetuous flow of words can. The Circeo massacre happened in 1976 when three privileged young men tortured and raped two women. In The Catholic School a 1,200-page slab of lament, accusation, exorcism he anatomizes the world that produced them. The three were tried, Ghirain absentia, andsentenced to lifeimprisonment. Then she is upset that she has betrayed him. Later they meet by chance in Rome. The girls allow themselves to be taken to separate bedrooms, and the evening ends in tears when, not knowing how to behave, the boys simply jump on them. After its festival premiere, The Catholic School has been praised by critics for its stunning visuals and unsettling pace. Already at the age of 13 he enrolled in an association of right wing students and used politics as an excuse to do what he liked the most: rape, steal and kill. Vuoi segnalarci una storia, una notizia o suggerire un articolo? However, in September 2011, Papi announced that she had overcome the marriage crisis, especially in the wake of his acquittal in the libel trial of the two Ferrazzano murder victims. There exists a scrupulous and exacting ethical standard according to which all the things we own are nothing but loans. After being on the side of boyish transgression, Albinati suddenly seems like the priest in the pulpit. photo of Rosaria (on the left) and Donatella (on the right): https://images.app.goo.gl/LHNtrzYqBd6dWNPs6, photo of the Circeo area: https://images.app.goo.gl/Q7tmnEogc1VCxVt39, photo of the villa where the massacre happened: https://images.app.goo.gl/3rXtHL8QFQ9TRnqZ8, *** Sorry for any mistake, English is not my native language. You achieved great progress by breaking rules, after which you either suffered cruel but fair punishments, or else you learned that there was no punishment after all. . . All rights reserved. Rosaria Lopez was a nineteen-year-old bartender and Donatella Colasanti a seventeen-year-old student. Both have been raped, tortured, and left for dead. One girl is dragged across the rooms with a leather belt around her neck. A male, then, is a non-being or rather a being-for, a potential being, a volition, an edge concept, a guiding principle., There are occasional flashes of epigrammatic wit if sex doesnt manifest itself as an obsession, then it hasnt manifested itself at all; the only thing youre in a hurry to put at arms length is something that is close, uncomfortably close but Albinati is generally a humorless writer. At a spiritual retreat organized by the school, the boys have fun acting out a flagellation depicted in a painting in one of the bedrooms. We wonder whether Fascism and gang rape arent forms of collective homosexuality. We discover that the sleepy Quartiere Trieste, where Albinatis home and school were located, had become a battleground for opposing gangs of Fascists and Communists. like a large grazing ruminant. In line with the rising tide of liberalism outside the school, the priests apparent severity actually conceals a pathetic weakness; no one is ever punished. . They try to make love, but its too painful for her. And the friendships that you cultivated there were nothing more than a free zone in which to experiment and behave in ways that are otherwise forbidden. [5] To dispel them, in January 2016 the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office reopened the case and ordered that the body be exhumed again so as to undergo a new, more thorough DNA test. Morituris is a 2011 Italian horror film directed by Raffaele Picchio. In their cell, Angelo Izzo and Gianni Guido had hung a large banner in the stadium format, with the words "Corso Trieste 1972 - La Vecchia Guardia"(Corso Trieste is a rich area in Rome, "La Vecchia Guardia" means "The Old Guard"). [8], In January 1977, Izzo and Guido attempted to escape from Latina Prison by taking the prison guards' marshal hostage, albeit unsuccessfully. He died from an overdose in 1994 and the body was officially recognized. A classmates sister offered herself as the bait. The logic of the novel, then, is that the school is to be put in relation to the crime, perhaps to serve as an explanation for it. The novel itself is an exercise in such proliferation and its accompanying emotions. Get Access to Print and Digital for As per reports, Papi also revealed that her husband was involved in serious affairs pertaining to the Republic to which she doesnt want to be an accomplice. The justice system continues to fail victims, there are hundreds of cases since. and our A male isnt someone who is male, but someone who has to be male. However, after a few hours of chatting and listening to music, Izzo and Guido began suddenly making explicit sexual advances toward the girls. Because of this, Colasanti declared that Ghira was still alive and staying in Rome, and that the remains were those of one of his relatives. What now then, with eight hundred pages still to go? The Circeo massacre (Italian: massacro del Circeo) was a rape and murder case occurring in the Italian town of San Felice Circeo in the Province of Latina in the Lazio region on 29-30 September 1975. You expect him to take an ax to all this, to let in reason, but he merges with the muck. One is jailed for arson. Letizia Lopez, Rosaria's sister, reacted negatively to this circumstance, complaining in particular of Guido's long periods abroad as a fugitive, the absence of signs of repentance on his part and how she didn't judge his detention regime sufficiently rigorous. isnt exactly a place to study. The Circeo massacre is the violent crime (kidnapping and murder) that took place in the Italian municipality of San Felice Circeo between September 29 and 30, 1975. In the midst of the torture Gianni Guido left for a while to have dinner in Rome with his family, then he returned to the Circeo and the torture. Fiction is the exact opposite of chaos, Albinati observes, a desperate attempt to put order in the world. Rome 1.3K 46 46 comments Best Add a Comment [deleted] 1 yr. ago In every relationship between male and female. as if they were dead. The girls, we read, were lying down with their long hair draped along their backs or else bent over, both hands pulling their buttocks wide open. I dont think Salvatore really liked girls, Albinati comments. Were told of a man who ejaculates into the mouth of his dead sister in the morgue. As a matter of no one should watch it. He was buried in the local cemetery. There, for nearly two days, 17-year-old Donatella Colasanti and her 19-year-old friend Rosaria Lopez were systematically tortured and . For 3 days I had anxiety and depression and today I went to a doctor for assistance. Repression only makes things worse. Nothing, they do nothing, they just keep walking.. The boy on the receiving end follows the lesson placidly. They were joined by the home-owner's son, 22-year-old Andrea Ghira, who claimed to be a capo of the Marseille gang. On 26 November 2005, the DNA testing confirmed Ghira's identity. Relations between the generations, bonds of authority. The victims were tied up, suffocated and buried in the courtyard of a house in Mirabello Sannitico (near Campobasso). (She is also thanked in the acknowledgments for transcribing his handwritten pages, a new and ghastly achievement in filial piety, considering how diligently Albinati records his sexual practices.) He is shocked, bewildered, and his face is split into two bands, suffering above and a mindless little smile below, at which Albinati realizes that he had liked it. Its his own school that is in session a one-way, Orphic descent into hell, with the violence manifest instead of latent, and his own pessimism front and center. I had. heavy objects, like so many carved marble animals to be used as bookends., The situation invites comedy, and Albinati can be very funny. [7] In January 1981, he escaped from prison in San Gimignano and fled to Buenos Aires, where he was recognized and arrested a little more than two years later. Manuela what an ignorant comment. We do not follow the life of the girl who survived, or that of the culprit who escaped. Sad it seems the perpetrators of horrific crimes always get off lightly and the victims are condemned to suffer! However, the analysis raised doubts. The Circeo massacre is a true crime story and refers to the kidnapping and torture inflicted by three young far-right men to two girls aged 17 and 19 years, one of whom was killed by her captors. As a result, it becomes hard to know what one is feeling. She would have liked to see the retrial against Angelo Izzo. . Known as the Circeo Massacre, after the resort area of Circeo, seventy miles south of Rome, where the violence took place, this atrocity made a huge impact in Italy in 1975; it then came back into public consciousness in 1981 when one of the culprits escaped from prison and fled to Argentina, and again in 2005 when the other condemned man, granted day release to work outside prison, killed a woman and her fourteen-year-old daughter. A few months later Ghira wrote a letter, intercepted by the investigators, to his friends Angelo Izzo and Gianni Guido, in which he assured them that they would soon leave prison"for good behavior" and threatened to kill Donatella if she testified against them.
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