"Potatoes?" "Two..." "That's enough." "Southern serenades..." "hot, sweet Sicilian nights." "While I'd been away, the memory of one of those nights had filled me with regret and nostalgia." "Agramonte, population:" "18,000." "Illiterates: 4,300." "Permanently or temporarily unemployed: 1,700." "24 churches... including some examples of 17th century baroque." "This is Cefalù Palace, and the family coat-of-arms." "it's the only thing my father hasn't sold yet." "His dissipation, which I won't specify for mom's sake, had reduced us to living in one wing." "Uncle Calogero's family lived in the other." "But I'll go back to this fateful household later." "Here's my father, Baron Gaetano Cefalù and our friends from the club." "They've spoken of him for just 5 seconds before reverting to their favourite topic: women!" "The subject was endless." "In their vivid imagination, women were myths." "The invisible women of Agramonte hid their beauty behind the slats of chaste shutters." "Agramonte's working class marched towards progress." "Slow progress, perhaps..." "But the bells of St. Firmino challenged the proletarian call." "And so, my faithful fellow citizens," "I exhort you to vote for a party that is popular, democratic, and respects your Christian faith." "In other words, a party that is Christian and Democratic." "My wife Rosalia..." "married 12 years." "Donna Matilde, my mother." "My sister Agnese, officially promised that is, engaged, to Rosario Mulè, of Molè  Son, Funeral Directors." "Don Calogero, the intruder at Cefalù Palace married to Fifidda, my father's sister." "In the space of 15 years, by backing my father's gambling debts," "Don Calogero had laid hands on our best property." "And this is my cousin Angela," "Calogero's daughter." "Angela was in high school  at a nuns' college near Catania." "She used to come home in the summer." "I was in love with Angela." "Fefè, do you feel all right?" "I'm fine, good night!" "What's wrong?" "Are you sick?" "I'm fine." "What do you want?" "Do you need anything?" "Some herb tea?" "I don't need anything." "Go to bed." "Who's in there?" "it's me, Dad!" "Hurry op..." "Gaetano, do you need me?" "No, go to bed!" "Go on!" "I knew the garlic in the peppers would upset you." "I told mom, but she said peppers need garlic in them." "it's true peppers are no good without garlic but sometimes a wife  knows better than a mother." "It's a matter of... well, you know..." "Don't you think so, Fefè?" "Yes..." "I feel a bit cold..." "I'm freezing." "You must be sick." "The temperature was in the nineties today." "Fefè, do you really love me?" "Sure I love you." "How much?" "What a lovely cold feet you've got!" "She looked at me!" "Know what?" "I was wondering why we're alive." "Do you know why we're alive?" "Why?" "To love!" "We live to love," "and if one don't love..." "If one "doesn't" love..." "Yes, we'd..." "like the flowers in autumn." "We'd have been withered." "Damn this heat." "Do you need anything?" "No, go to sleep!" "Tell him to cut it out!" "Watch it, I'll tell your father." "It's not my fault, is it?" "Shut up, you ask for it!" "I even lock my door at night, but when I turn round..." "Don Fefè, you tell him!" "Just don't turn round!" "Someone's coming!" "Don Ferdinando!" "Agnese, please..." "Don Ferdinando, we're going to be married." "We'll be married before Christmas!" "We'll talk it over..." "There's no hurry." "First I have to come out of mourning for grandpa..." "Don't think badly..." "Rosario respects me." "I swear it!" "I'd better be going now." "Well, I guess I'm attractive, well-mannered, intelligent." "Ah, my stomach!" "..." "I'll have to cut out fat, sugar, starch... everything!" "I've brought you a coffee, it's freshly made." "Were you asleep?" "Yes!" "Easy on the sugar!" "But you always liked it sweet!" "Not anymore!" "Can I have a drop?" "Just a little drop?" "There's a pot full." "No, some of yours." "Are you crazy?" "A grey hair!" "Now I've pulled it out, 7 more will grow." "Greying temples look so distinguished!" "Sisina!" "You're filling the house with smoke!" "I've told you before!" "You'll have to tell your mother!" "We made the soap only last month." "Do you know how much we spend on soap?" "Don't start that again." "What?" "!" "Why don't you buy it ready-made?" "No!" "If things were done sensibly in this house we could save money!" "I'm going to talk to her!" "Sometimes we used to go to the sea in the summer." "Rosalia took sand baths for her arthritis." "Can you fix my parasol?" "Oh God, someone's coming!" "Warm today, isn't it?" "It sure is." "We weren't doing anything wrong, I swear it!" "I know..." "We can discuss that matter" "whenever you like..." "There's plenty of time." "Angela..." "What are you doing?" "Picking flowers for the Virgin Mary." "I felt like picking flowers, too." "But I'll never know who to give them to." "You understand, don't you?" "What a lovely scent..." "The other day... why did you look at me like that?" "So you thought about it, eh?" "Wait!" "He went to pick flowers, the darling boy." "Yes, while he was at it." "You're so prosaic!" "Rosalia's right." "What a lovely flowers." "Thank you, honey." "Where did you get them?" "Over there..." "Put them nearer so I can smell them." ""A man flies through space around the earth."" "It's like inside I'm always dissatisfied." "For examples, you know I love grapes, but I love grapes more when there aren't any." "When I've got grapes, I feel like pears." "Agramonte's murder statistics are quite something." "Your servant, Baron." "Where was I?" "Don Ciccio Matara!" "He'd "punished" Natalino Urso." "The things they said about Don Ciccio!" "When that woman was murdered in the street no one saw a thing." "Bound for life to Don Ciccio Matara!" "No, no, no..." "What was I saying?" "It's not so much the grapes, it's the urge I get for them." "Like that poem that says" "Saturdays are better than Sundays." "That night was to mark a turning point in my life." "I'll kick him out of the house!" "He's donning me for 25,000 lire!" "But why did Aunt Fifidda call for help?" "How should I know?" "I think he hit his daughter." "Open up!" "Come here!" "You bitch!" "Open up, it's me!" "His name!" "He'll kill the poor girl." "You won't get it out of me!" "Tell me his name..." "... or I'll kill you!" "No!" "Get dressed, you slut!" "Wretch!" "Miser!" "You're a worm!" "No..." "No!" "No, please!" "Why is the midwife here?" "To check out my daughter." "Why?" "She's got a lover!" "Here's her diary, read it yourself." "I'll kill him!" ""It's happened at last!" "The flowers were all around us."" "What's happened?" "Nothing!" "They're all there." "I'll go see." ""It's happened at last!"" ""The flowers were all around us."" ""We met and..."" ""But it's too beautiful for words."" ""Now I'm his forever!"" "My poor angel!" "Beaten, humiliated, "examined"." "That horrid shrew's smile as she said to the father:" ""She's pure"." "Pure..." "My poor Angela, you're a flower, a delicate lily!" "Angela, why are you crying?" "Aren't you cold?" "Look what he did to me." "But I didn't say anything about us." "My love..." "I'm going away." "They're sending me back to college tomorrow." "No, Angela..." "No, we mustn't." "You're mine!" "She left on the 10.20 bus with two nuns from the convent." "Goodbye, my darling." "Then the trial started at Catania against" "Mariannina Terranova, a murderess for honour." "The local papers made a big fuss about it." "The shady victim, Vito Cafiero, age 24." "The pathetic murderess, a home-loving girl of 26." "Mariannina had taken the train and her revolver and had shot her beloved in, downtown Catania." "Southern honour had found its heroine!" "Miss Terranova, how did you get  the murder weapon?" "He gave it to me." "He, who?" ""Him"!" "He said: "lf I betray you, kill me with it!"" "And then?" "Then... he dishonoured me." "Good for you, Mariannina!" "Send that woman out!" "Gentlemen of the Court." "To kiss a girl is no crime, perhaps." "But to cite a far more sacred text, I say:" ""He who looks on a woman with desire, sins in his heart!"" "So, as the train bore Mariannina to her tragic destination, as ineluctably  as the fate that drove her, a poor southern creature in the black shawl that symbolizes our women's modesty, her hands clasped in her lap" "the lap which God condemns to the blissful torments of maternity... as the train drove on the rhythmic pounding of its wheels resounded in her poor ears like a nightmare:" "dishonoured, dishonoured..." "But what is honour, gentlemen?" "Shall we accept the definition given in the dictionary:" ""The complex of moral and civic attributes"" ""that win a man respect and respectability"" ""in society."" "Shall we cast it into the refuse of outdated things?" "Letters written by anonymous hands." "Letters that would offend the dignity of this Court." "Such as this one, which in one word defines Mariannina's fate: "cuckold!"" "Or this one... which expresses itself with an unchaste image!" ""Cuckold"!" "Dishonoured!" "The ancient name of Cefalù tarnished by a tart!" "Now let's see..." "Article 587 of the Penal Code:" ""Whoever kills a spouse found in the act"" ""of having illicit sexual relations"" ""and in a state of anger at being dishonoured!" "is punishable with a term of from 3 to 7 years."" "Let's see..." "I'm 37, plus 7 makes 44." "Angela's 16... plus 7..." "No, hold on... 7 years is the maximum." "But Mariannina... no, her case is different." "The law considers a concubine's jealousy, not her honour." "She got 8 years..." "that sure is a lot." "But she's a vulgar, ignorant concubine!" "I'm a respectable person, a graduate, a model husband for 15 years, an aristocratic!" "Yes, gentlemen of the Court, these are dark times, permeated by scientific materiality!" "But men are not aristocrats by chance!" "Now, I will not speak to you about the Crusades..." "No, no, let's stick to the point." "Does the letter  and spirit of the law  not apply to the drama of the man you see before you?" "Did he not act in anger, was he not dishonoured when he found his wife in the arms of her lover?" "Rosalia's lover... but who?" "It's got to be someone tailor-made for her." "To take to bed!" "But who could it be?" "I'd bought her that dress and made her wear it  for a reason." "No, the professor's no good." "Everyone's looking at me." "Come off it!" "I wanted to see if the curves I'd married" "(I was a young innocent then) could still be attractive to men." "All in all, the answer was !" "yes!" "." "Aren't you hot?" "Not the police sergeant." "The law's out." "Don Ciccio, God forbid!" "Don't you think there's a draft?" "Maybe an encounter at an artistic level?" "How about Tonino Gambacurta?" "What a lovely voice Tonino has!" "What?" "..." "Yes, poor thing." "Why poor?" "Didn't you know?" "Forget it, Tonino's out." "Good night." "If you don't say it, I can't sleep." "I love you, good night." "How much, Fefè?" "But why?" "That's it!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "That's it!" "I've brought your breakfast." "No!" "Please, for my sake!" "Stay calm, Rosalia." "He always takes it out on me." "He was so sweet once, and now..." "Just remember he loves you, that's the main thing." "What's with the shooting?" "Get out of here!" "Idiot!" "What are you staring at?" "Hey, I mean you!" "Carmelino..." "I saw you, Rosalia, as pure and beautiful as the Madonna." "I wanted to die with that image of you with you in my heart, craving to make you mine." "but that will never be, alas!" "Believe me, Rosalia, I think I'll lose my faith in God but the sight of you... beautiful as a young pagan divinity..." "Desert of El Alamein, Saturday, May 29, 1942." "Rosalia, I swear if I get out of here alive when I come home after the war, you'll be mine forever!" "Carmelo Patanè!" "Given up for dead in Africa!" "They'd even put his name on the war memorial and then cancelled it!" "The parish priest's godson!" "The bitch!" "Good morning." "The mass is over." "I just saw someone go in." "He's restoring the church." "But if you want to go in..." "Just for 2 minutes." "Look at that rose window." "He's good." "Yes!" "I persuaded Patanè to come to the house with the excuse of getting his expert opinion about some old daubs on the hall ceiling." "Just as I thought." "Some careless 19th century iconoclast, in an attempt to adorn the house, covered the original decorations which are assuredly 17th century with these... excuse me  ludicrous daubs depicting revolting convivial, or hunting scenes, or..." "That's very likely." "They say the Cefalù were great eaters, great hunters, and great..." "Your ancestors committed sacrilege," "Can it be fixed?" "Perhaps." "You're crazy." "That trash!" "I was thinking of..." "They say it's worth it!" "Yes  actually it's..." "Excuse me." "The idiot!" "But they'd pretended not to know each other." "it was time to make it op with Rosalia." "Come in." "it's me, I'm sorry." "Forgive me, Rosalia." "I'm sorry, I've got a terrible headache." "That's too bad... kiss..." "Good night!" "Yes, Carmelo's just right." "Next day, with the excuse of seeing about some tax problems," "I went to Catania..." "I wanted to see Angela." "and I had to buy something important." "Now let's tape something." "Go ahead." "What should I say?" "Anything you like!" "Gentlemen of the Court!" "Are you an attorney?" "Now I'll play it back for you." "Perfect, isn't it?" "All the signs of fate were favourable." "Mr. President!" "Gentlemen of the Court!" "What a nice goy!" "Lovely face!" "And so handsome!" "Goodbye!" "How nice to see you again." "How are you?" "You've grown." "Something terrible is happened." "I've written to you." "Hello, sister." "This is my uncle." "I'm her mother's brother." "May I?" "Come to the college on Sundays or Thursdays." "Come on girls, in line." "Mind you study." "Sisina, is there any mail?" "Where is everybody?" "Oh my God!" "in spite of appearances... is everyone out?" "They're fighting at Aunt Fifidda's." "I gave the orders in my house!" "it'll be your house when you pay for it!" "I do as I please in my house!" "I decide about my daughter!" "He wants to marry her off For the money." "His own daughter!" "The loose!" "Worm!" "Rat!" ""But I'll be yours..."" ""... or no one's, dearest Ferdinando."" ""If our love's impossible,"'" ""No one can replace it."" ""My heart will always Be yours"" ""And I'll pray for you..."" ""... forever!"" "Angela!" "..." "And who, gentlemen, in this brief analysis of the fact, can remotely evoke the horror that overcame the accused at that spectacle." "The two lovers lay there, obscenely entwined in sin." "Yes, on the sofa of his honoured house." "He stood there aghast, searching for an explanation for a miracle that would cancel out that awful vision for words with which to express  his sorrow, his grief." "instead, he found an old pistol lying forgotten  in a drawer." "instead, he found an old pistol lying forgotten... in a rococo console-table of 18th century Neapolitan school." "Carmelo started work at 10 a.m. on July 12." "The occasion was almost a ceremony with her, him, and me trying to control ourselves." "Sisina was there, too." "Well, I'll get my smock..." "If you don't mind..." "Drink your coffee first..." "Sit down." "Sugar?" "One or two?" "Two, I like it sweet." "Would you like a cookie?" "No thanks." "They're homemade, you know... by my wife." "in that case, yes please." "Sisina!" "Beat it." "Well, I'll be off..." "No, finish your coffee." "You haven't tried the cookies yet." "You're looking well, Rosalia." "So are you, Carmelo." "it's been a long time." "Yes, it has..." ""Baron, your wife's cheating on you in your own house."" "Okay, it's premature, but if all goes well..." "Patanè was incredibly shy and Rosalia disgustingly faithful." "After 3 sittings, almost nothing had happened." "You know, I'd like to..." "I think I could help you a bit." "You could help me a lot." "No, it's... it's just out of friendship." "I'd like to stay here and watch your work." "Why have you grown sad?" "it's nothing." "Yes, Rosalia, a tempera mixture allows you to use lead paint on traditional water-colours." "Why are you laughing?" "Don't laugh like that..." "I'll go crazy." "I'm sorry..." "Won't you forgive me?" "I'd better not come here anymore." "Sisina, take this plate away." "Nothing happened that day either." "But Rosalia had changed, she was very sweet to me now as if wanted to be forgiven for something." "The head?" "No, I don't feel like it." "Too bad, you love it." "What's wrong?" "Are you sick?" "Her refuse a fish-head?" "Things were progressing." "Still got a headache?" "Yes, the doctor says it might become chronic." "Too bad." "Good night." "Good night." "Great!" "Now watch it, don't seem too resigned." "I'll have a sigh." "I'm sorry." "Oh, well." "it's so hot today..." "but it's quite cool here." "Why are you staring?" "I'd like to paint your portrait one day  like a Madonna," "or like a harem slave-girl." "Haven't you ever..." "done me from memory?" "Yes, hundreds of times... wherever I happened to be." "I even sketched you  at Leptis Magna, on a Corinthian capital... and on the marble tables of bars." "And at Panarea Island, where I go occasionally." "it's still there, in a fisherman's hot." "Do you know Panarea?" "No. is it beautiful?" "Sea... rocks... nature!" "I'd love to see those sketches!" "A journey back through time in search of lost dreams!" "Rosalia!" "No, don't please!" "I've brought you lemonade." "She's always butting in!" "Hot, isn't it?" "Yes..." "The Baron and Baroness are resting, I guess?" "Everyone's asleep..." "Good." "... except me." "Don't you ever have a siesta?" "I used to, after I'd fixed the dishes, but now..." "Now?" "l can't sleep anymore  not even at night!" "Let's take a look at you." "Antonello da Messina." "Ayoong martyr, typical of Antonello." "Stand still... come on." "The loose!" "He wouldn't be trying it on with her..." "I'd like to paint your portrait one day." "Go buy me an aspirin." "How's the work going?" "Not too bad." "That's good." "All the best." "Thanks, Baron." "in the name of..." "Father, I've sinned." "... and the Holy Ghost." "So what's his name?" "Do you know Antonello?" "Who?" "No, he's not from our parish." "He's from Messina." "Messina?" "!" "Did you have to get into trouble in Messina?" "But I don't even know him." "How does Antonio come into it?" "Antonello!" "He mentioned him... the professor." "Which professor?" "Your godson Carmelino." "Are you saying Carmelino's the man?" "You wretch!" "He's got a wife and 3 children!" "Why don't you wear a wedding ring?" "You cheated." "Don't shout, Sisina." "Wedding rings are out of style now." "But if you don't wear it, how's a girl to know..." "Don't shoot..." "Calm down, Sisina, please!" "Married!" "And 3 kids!" "Let's reconsider the situation." "He knows the maid knows, so he's jumpy." "Now what would I do..." "... in his place..." "Carmelino!" "Rosalia, I've got to tell you something." "What's wrong?" "Are you sick?" "Sit on the sofa." "I'm unworthy of your love, I lied to you." "I'm not free." "I'm tied to a woman..." "I'm married, too." "I betrayed to oath I swore 12 years ago." "No..." "Forgive me  because I'm the loneliest man in the world!" "I swear!" "Poor Carmelino... is someone there?" "No, who should there be?" "l thought I heard..." "No." "Go to bed, dad." "My love!" "Don't go!" "Come here!" "I love you and you're mine." "Nothing can stand between our love!" "You and I are alone." "We've waited 12 years for this." "Admit it..." "Yes!" "Well then, my love..." "No!" "Not like this." "Tomorrow..." "but first swear something." "Anything you like..." "but why tomorrow?" "Tomorrow's Thursday, right?" "I was thinking that tomorrow..." "Tomorrow..." "Swear something..." "Swear what?" "And why tomorrow?" "TOMORROW:" ""LA DOLCE VITA"" "Preceded by scandal, protests and cheers a sensational film had come to town." "The priest had thundered against its licentiousness and urged his flock to boycott it, but all in vain." "it's got orgies, wife-swapping, strip-tease..." "let's go!" "It was unbelievable." "Even the chairs from the bar were used but weren't enough for the crowd." "People had poured in from miles around creating problems for the gentlemen of Agramonte until Don Ciccio Matara took over, with excellent results." "I can't stay shut up in that crowd for 3 hours." "Have you got headache?" "Yes..." "Then I'll stay home, too." "No, no!" "I'll take a pill and go to bed." "You go." "Oh, my head!" "Gaetano!" "Pickles give you heartburn." "That's what you think!" "Don't be so rode." "Take this stuff away." "Leave your door open." "I'll tell you the movie." "Come on, come on!" "Did you ask Sisina to stay and keep you company?" "No, she says she's made a vow." "Anyway, it's got an X rating." "Yes..." "Look after yourself..." "Yes... good night." "Enjoy yourself." "Thanks." "Fefè!" "I'm coming!" "Let's go!" "My cigarettes... it's got to happen in our room  no, she'd never do that." "A high-class mammal..." "but soulless." "Those infamous anonymous letters had turned his mind!" "It was with great reluctance that he ran home to check." "He thought it an insult towards his dear spouse, but suspicion had now wormed itself into his soul." "His uncertain steps brought him before the house." "Everything looked normal, quiet, and restful." "What if he's already gone in?" "!" "Damn them!" "Damn them!" "Where the hell's she going?" "And why has she got a case?" "The 9.43 express!" "The gon!" "Damn them!" "The station!" "Maybe if I catch them in the act with the case... it's good enough for the law!" "He found the house empty, the marriage bed deserted!" "Overcome by the natural instinct of revenge, he gave chase!" "To kill, perhaps, or in desperate hopes of detaining his faithless wife." "Who knows?" "But when he saw the two lovers there together..." "The 9.43 express..." "it's left right on time!" "Damn them!" "The town was very quiet, next day, as if nothing had happened." "The adulterers' flight had upset my plan." ""Whoever kills a spouse"" ""found in the act of illicit intercourse,"" ""in a state of anger at being dishonoured..."" "The terms of the problem were clear." "State of anger, in the act, dishonour." "It was no longer in the act, so I had to play op the dishonour for the state of anger to meet the requirements of the law." "I resorted to a trick I'd learned in the army." "104!" "Rosalia... why did you desert me?" "..." "Dr. Talamone was the worst gossip in town." "Very soon, I began to fall  in the public esteem." "in the beginning, my friends at the club were very sympathetic  in the beginning..." "He's shot himself in there since it happened." "He's stopped eating, the poor boy." "If he had surprised his wife in the act of adultery yes, gentlemen, perhaps he would have killed her." "But not afterwards, not in cold blood!" "He could not pursue the adulterers, nor kindle his hatred." "No, gentlemen." "He lay there in a stupor, unable to feel or think." "Fefè, for mommy's sake, eat something." "Go away..." "leave me alone." "in town, the gossip had started to spread." "But all the things they were saying about me could be summed op in a single word, "cuckold"!" "This is the result of certain kinds of entertainment." "Wicked mystifications of art that parade and exalt sin, vice, and immorality!" "History has shown that even in your beautiful sooth which I'd never seen before, the time has come to tackle the problem of women's liberation and to resolve it, just as your Chinese brothers have done." "So I'd like to hear your democratic opinion your calm  and objective opinion..." "of Mrs. Cefalù." "Whore!" "Whore!" "The anonymous letters came at last!" "At Agramonte they were a form of craftsmanship." "They went from childish scrawls to immaculate copper-plate." "The orgy of slander  included us all." "The whole Cefalù dynasty was now dishonoured." "The reputation of close and distant relatives was threatened and even of future generations somehow linked to the Cefalùs." "No one was left out, not even the maid." "But those letters were pure gold to me." "I was potting together a detailed file." "Cuckold!" "Cuckold!" "Cuckold!" "With deepest sympathy." "No!" "Molè  Son, Ldt.!" "Coward!" "You'll find lots better than that coffin-maker!" "He doesn't want a cuckold's sister!" "We're all dishonoured!" "Coward!" "Coward!" "My poor boy..." "Rosario's left you?" "Yes, he's left me." "Did he tell you himself?" "No, he wrote me this letter." "Read it." "I'm really sorry, Agnese." "You're a cuckold and you like it!" "Lower and lower..." "Come on, sink into the mod op to your neck!" "Everyone openly avoided him now because he was branded with infamy!" "Like a leper, like someone affected by the plague!" "Here's the latest on the cuckold!" "Good day, Don Ferdinando..." "Funny... no one had yet told me where the fugitives were." "That was a nuisance because as the injured party," "I couldn't ask..." "I had to give chase on the impulse." "Don Ciccio Matara, with his shady friends could have helped, but it was up to him to take the initiative." "Actually, today it seemed as though he were thinking of it." ""Dear dad and mom, I took the Latin exam..."" ""... and I passed it."" "Dear dad and mom... in that case..." "You louse!" "Me?" "Why?" "What's going on?" "Something terrible!" ""My darling Ferdinando, I heard what happened."" ""My love, I wish I could be with you..."" ""... to share your pain."" ""Maybe it's a punishment for our sin."" ""A sign that the Lord will never bless our love."" ""Yours forever, no matter what..." "Angela."" "Poor man, it was too much for his heart." "Don't take it too hard..." "We all knew he had heart trouble." "But you've got to act now, Don Ferdinando." "Yours was an honoured family." "The whole town's waiting..." "I've contacted trusted friends to find out where they are." "Are you Ferdinando Cefalù?" "I'm lmmacolata Patanè." "His wife." "I've come to find out what you aim to do." "Well, I... don't..." "Oh yes, there was the provocation now  serious provocation." "Don Ciccio Matara had kept his promise." "What have you done?" "Avenged my honour." "What about mine?" "!" "in Sicily, there's no lack of corpses for reasons of honour." "Poor Rosalia, you didn't deserve it!" "Rest in peace now, with your innocent dreams." "I'd loved you once..." "but you were too..." "You'd say: "How much do you love me, Fefé?"" "You were hungry for love." "Too hungry..." "As for the trial, it went more or less as I'd expected." "Gentlemen of the Court!" "The attorney was brilliant, passionate, sarcastic and moving as he confidently played on the emotions." "He didn't get to the Crusades, but managed to quote "Othello"." "He spoke of my poor mother and nearly had me in tears, too." "Then he brought op my father: a dissolute alcoholic, a spendthrift undoubtedly, affected by an unmentionable disease." "Now there was hereditary vice plus the motive of honour." "Finally he called Mrs. Patanè but not her children." "They were too young to appear in Court, so he passed round their photos." "The sight of those orphans helped my case." "I don't know why..." "maybe because in Italy children are... children." "Silence!" "The Court!" "in the name of the people... 3 years!" "The minimum!" "Less, really, because of the amnesty." "I'd been counting on that." "On average, there's an amnesty every 3 years." "I can't say it was pleasant, but it was over now." "I'd suddenly started to worry." "Waiter, here's the money." "Thank you, sir." "All that time  I'd had only a few vague letters from Angela." "She kept saying she was praying for me." "Maybe it was her typical southern modesty." "Or maybe... no..." "That wouldn't be fair!" "The train's coming!" "A FEW MONTHS LATER" "Life certainly starts at forty!" "Oh yes, that's true!"