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Murder Dictionary

Music: Carlo Gesualdo

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss Carlo Gesualdo, who was a prince and musician that killed his wife & her lover, in front of many witnesses. The guilt made him paranoid, & caused him to do some disturbing things, but would such a powerful man get justice for his crimes? 

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CARLO GESUALDO LINKS:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19/prince-of-darkness

https://interlude.hk/in-the-clutches-of-madness/

https://interlude.hk/the-makings-of-insanity/

https://www.visitnaples.eu/en/neapolitanity/tales-of-naples/ghost-and-love-stories-in-naples-the-legend-of-maria-davalos

https://www.britannica.com/story/carlo-gesualdo-murder-witchcraft-choral-music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2010/mar/18/carlo-gesualdo-composer-psychopath

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130905-a-16th-century-musical-badass?fbclid=IwAR2BPXyWpo5zPOL_mdikEtl4ltXKoyP6Y_1A8RiTDu8NjKM-xtcm4Zc5tIc

https://www.ifagiolini.com/betrayal/morepsychiatricclues/

http://www.ifagiolini.com/betrayal/psychiatricclues/

https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.572137&catNum=572137&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English

http://www.naplesldm.com/gesualdo.php#note

http://www.naplesldm.com/gesualdo.php

https://ricercar.gesualdo-online.cesr.univ-tours.fr/chronology

https://coloraturaconsulting.com/2012/08/10/composer-biography-carlo-gesualdo-c1560-1613-2/







MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE LINKS:
https://www.childhelp.org/hotline/
https://victimsofcrime.org/help-for-crime-victims/get-help-bulletins-for-crime-victims/bulletins-for-teens/bullying-and-harassment 
http://stompoutbullying.org
http://www.thehotline.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwwcjGBRDj-P7TwcinyBkSJADymblT8HNh4scSA-G7d-xEADhi0xODIRWy3zXSWWrGXg2B5hoCdD7w_wcB 
http://www.ncadv.org/  
http://www.crisistextline.org/textline/?gclid=CjwKEAjw9MrIBRCr2LPek5-h8U0SJAD3jfhtHplx6Ibc8Ov7oG79YLibo1TubSfQrumNc-WnXJixDxoCKafw_wcB 
https://www.mentalhelp.net/meeting-finder/ca/woodland-hills/

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Brianna. Hello and welcome to Murder Dictionary Podcast.

0:40.9

I'm Brianna and that's Courtney.

0:43.3

Hello.

0:44.0

We're back.

0:45.0

We're back.

0:45.8

We took a little bit of an extended break.

0:48.2

Just a little bit.

0:48.9

Yeah.

0:49.5

So we're back with another case.

0:52.0

So before we get into what we have for you today, we like to remind you that in our show

0:59.0

notes, you can find links to our social media if you want to follow us on Facebook,

1:04.9

Instagram, and Twitter.

1:06.8

You can find links to our Patreon.

1:09.8

If you want to get access to bonus episodes and early

1:14.1

release episodes and ad free content as well. And you can find a link to our threadless if you

1:22.2

want to buy some merch. We've got t-shirts and phone cases and all sorts of good stuff and what's the last thing

1:31.4

that i'm missing we're on facebook we're on instagram that's the first thing i said no i thought the first thing

1:37.8

no you said something else oh um but we're listening to each other intently as we do this.

1:49.5

We also have links to the resources that we use to research this episode.

1:55.2

I knew I was forgetting something.

1:57.0

That's what it was.

1:57.6

So, yeah, if you want to read more on tonight's case, if you want to get more information, then check out the show notes every week. There's links to our resources. And I just realized that I forgot to put together the list of new patrons on Patreon. So I'm not going to read that because I didn't prepare it and that's my

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