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NYEP(D.751.029
17 Jun 1751:12 (217)
Extract of a private letter from Venice, Feb. 23. An affair
has happened here, which shews to how great degree the human
mind may be corrupted and to what excesses persons are
capable of going, who have lived long in a habit of vice.
Francisco Panizo, by birth a Neapolitan, who had discharged,
for seven years, in the palace of one of our nobles, the
post of Maitre d'hotel, or steward with a tolerable fair
character, when on the 12th of January to a house near the
church of St. Pertiniani, in which a gentlewoman whose names
was Angelica, and with whom he had long had an intrigue,
resided in a handsome apartment. They were seen by the
neighbours to go out together to a ball, supped afterwards
at a publick house, from whence Panizo conducted her home,
and is supposed to have promised he would make her another
visit that night.
Having digested his black design in his head. . . [he
murders and robs her, decamps, is taken and beheaded with
great cruelty.]
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