Benedetto Glorietta (abt. 1791 - 1837)

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Benedetto Glorietta is born around 1791 in Monreale, the son of Biagio Glorietta and Giovanna Mini. He is a resident of Corleone from childhood.

Benedetto marries Antonina Lupo, daughter of the late ‘’Maestro’’ Pietro Lupo and the living Francesca Triolo, from ‘’Regalis Commenda Peritii’’ (Prizzi), and a resident of Corleone from childhood, on 24 August 1819 in Corleone. His father has died by this time.^[1]

Benedetto and Antonina have at least one child, Giovanna (c. 1821), named after her paternal grandmother.

During the cholera epidemic of 1837, the town of Corleone is put under quarantine. Violence erupts, with some people in the town naming others “annointers,” spies sent by the Bourbon king to poison the people of Sicily with cholera.

The historian, Don Giovanni Colletto, names Benedetto Glorietti, aka Dimitri di Biagio, age 35 (b. 1802), from Monreale, among the leaders of one of these mobs who kill so-called "annointers."^[2] At least one historian describes the violence that erupted throughout Sicily at this time, as Republican in nature, with the stories of annointers being a thin cover for killing supporters of the king.^[3]

There is a death record for Benedetto di Mitri, age 46 (b. 1791), husband of Antonina, who dies on 2 August 1837. His parents' names are not recorded.^[4]

Benedetto is executed on this date, along with several others, on the Borgo in Corleone.^[2]

Giovanna marries Leoluca Cortimiglia on 28 April 1841.^[5]

Giovanna dies, a widow, on 5 March 1878 in the hospital, at age 57 (b. 1821).^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage of Benedicti Glorietta and Antonina Lupo, record no. 793, 24 August 1819, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11593-62154-98?cc=2046915 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Matrimoni 1798-1832 > image 451 of 592; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Giovanni Colletto. Storia Della Citta di Corleone (Siracusa: Tip. Littoriale, 1934.)
3. ↑ Denis Mack Smith, A History of Sicily: Modern Sicily After 1713. Dorset Press, 1988.
4. ↑ Death of Benedictus di Mitri, record no. 1751, 2 August 1837, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11555-102038-84?cc=2046915 : accessed 22 April 2016), Corleone > San Martino > Morti 1837-1843 > image 91 of 194; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
5. ↑ Marriage of Leonisluca Cortimiglia and Joanna Glorietta, record no. 1096, 28 April 1841, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DT6S-ZBX?cc=2046915&wc=MG37-VZS%3A351041801%2C351041802%2C351561801 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > image 162 of 443; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
6. ↑ Estratto del registro degli atti di morte, record no. 9, part 2, Giovanna Glorietta, "Italia, Palermo, Palermo, Stato Civile (Tribunale), 1866-1910," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32374-23926-51?cc=2051639 : accessed 3 February 2016), Palermo > Corleone > Allegati (nati, matrimoni, morti) 1880-1883 > image 2973 of 2981; Tribunale di Cagliari (Cagliari Court, Cagliari).

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