Historia, prensa y literatura de un crimen pasionalel caso de la Reina de Tardajos (Soria, 1816-1846)
ISSN: 2340-8960
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Variantes de autor y redacciones múltiples del Humanismo al Barroco (España e Italia)
Issue: 10
Pages: 569-643
Type: Article
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Abstract
The material that I have managed to uncover has enabled me to reconstruct, with a fair amount of detail, the story of a crime of passion that took place the middle of the 19th century in Tardajos de Duero, a little village in the Spanish province of Soria. The outcome of the crime was the garrotting of the murderess and her lover. The ecclesiastical archives house books that reveal very interesting details about the personal life of the murderess and about the way the execution was carried out. The crime was reported in the Spanish press and reopened the debate on the death penalty in Spain. What is more, the story was rapidly turned into legend by way of popular printed pamphlets. As such, it had a powerful impact on the collective memory, as had happened in earlier centuries with other famous and horrid crimes of passion, several of which are also referred to here.