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Il trionfo della verginità ossia breve elogio storico del Cristiano eroismo di Maria Regina Pedena vergine Modenese uccisa barbaramente dal suo incorrisposto amante Eleutero Malagoli di Castellarano, nelle prime ore della notte del I. luglio 1827 del medico Fedele di Fiore.

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Very rare work prompted by the death of Maria Regina Pedena, a fourteen-year-old embroiderer who was found dead at her home in Modena in July 1827 with stab wounds to her throat and other wounds all over her body. A family friend, the thirty-five-year-old violin maker Eleutero Malagoli, was discovered lying prostrate at her feet, covered in blood and wounds from which he died a few days later. Malagoli was posthumously found guilty of Maria’s murder.

The case attracted considerable attention, and the young Maria’s presumed defence of her virginity in the face of Malagoli’s attempted seduction led to her being presented as an heroic virgin martyr in numerous eulogies, poetical and biographical works. Here Di Fiore praises Maria for having preferred ‘death to dishonour’. The work ends with a collection of ‘composizioni poetiche’ prompted by her ‘tragica virtuosa morte’.

Not on OCLC; ICCU finds one copy only, at the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples.

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