Drawing on articles published in the Corriere della Sera, Il Popolo d'Italia and La Stampa, this study examines a case of uxoricide that occurred in 1923, focusing on the way in which the murderer and his lawyers were able to convince both the general public and the jury that the murderer's jealous nature was a mental illness, leading to him avoiding a prison sentence. The victim, the murderer's wife, was depicted as a physically attractive woman of dubious sexual reputation. Such characteristics were deemed to have triggered her husband's jealousy, thus rendering her culpable, the agent of her own homicide. In place of a picture of uxoricide in revenge for tarnished honour, the murderer portrayed himself as the powerless victim of love and jealousy. Through a close analysis of the strategy adopted by the defendant's lawyers, this article shows how centuries-old gendered stereotypes and ideas of respectability affected the law in action and permeated early twentieth-century Italian society.

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“他看到了他想看到的”：声誉、嫉妒和法律。吉塞尔达·扎诺洛的杀虫剂

本研究借鉴 Corriere della Sera、Il Popolo d'Italia 和 La Stampa 上发表的文章，考察了 1923 年发生的一起 uxoricide 案件，重点关注凶手及其律师能够说服公众的方式陪审团认为凶手的嫉妒本质是一种精神疾病，导致他避免了入狱。受害者，凶手的妻子，被描绘成一个有着可疑性名声的外貌迷人的女人。这些特征被认为引发了她丈夫的嫉妒，从而使她成为罪魁祸首，她自己的凶杀案的代理人。凶手没有描绘为报复名誉受损而杀戮的照片，而是将自己描绘成爱和嫉妒的无能为力的受害者。通过对被告律师所采取的策略的仔细分析，