[londonperl] Re: music to code to

[Raphael Mankin]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:16 +0000, Edwardson, Tony wrote:
> > Raphael Mankin wrote: 
> > Gesualdo is famous for NOT killing his wife and lover. Because he did
> > not kill them he was considered to have murdered them; if he had killed
> > them it would have been acceptable.
> 
> Not according to http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rneckmag/gesualdo.html
> Says he either killed them hinmself or got someone else to do it for him and
> then "convinced of the morality of his actions", publicly displayed the
> corpses 
> 
Your info is *almost* correct. Because he got his men at arms to do it,
and did not do it himself, it was accounted murder. For an aggrieved
husband himself to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover was perfectly
acceptable.

I was being sneaky in omitting the word 'himself' from the original
posting.