Michele Sanvico

NORCIA, ROME, THE PANTHEON, THE MURDERS: A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRIMINAL CASE REVISITED

The present essay, the third in the series “The Norcia Historical Papers”, is devoted to an old, ominous saying that still lives in the local tradition of the city of Rome: «The 'norcino' ends up at the Pantheon» (in the original Roman dialect: «Er norcino finisce a la Rotonna»)....