The Scold's Bridle

Author: Adolfo Polidori
Pages:260
Publisher: La Rapida, Fermo - Italy

The scold's bridle is an instrument of torture to punish the blasphemer, it was used by the gendarmerie of the Papal State.

This historical novel runs between the 1817 and the1846 at Ripatransone, a small town in the Marches region, in Italy.

The main characters are Adamo Caporossi and Giuseppe Cardini.

Adamo is a farmer apparently rude, but with a noble soul.

Despite his inability to read and write, Adamo was aware and in favor of the unity of Italy.

In the Marches region, ther were an imminent transaction from a pontifical state to a democratic state.

Giuseppe Cardini was a doctor from Pollenza a town in the province of Macerata.

He was a clever and honest man with an ideal: The Unity of Italy, he was known with the appellation of "Carbonaro"

The Charcoal Burners (Carbonari) were a secret and revolutionary society founded in the 19th century.

Their revolution was to built a patriotic and liberal state with a great and shared ideal: the Italian unification.

Adamo e Giuseppe, enter the scene, during the failed revolution of 1820.

We will know their wife and sons and an accurate description of the life during those hard times, full of misery, love, human dignity and death.

The second part takes place describing the life of their loved sons: Cardini Giovanni and Caporossi Domenico.

They are completely different but united by a true friendship and a common ideal.

The nickname of Giovanni is Nino.

Nino is an handsome man intelligent, sensible, educated in a convent and respectful of God

For him, the concept of revolution does not necessarily mean violence, you can be a revolutionary without the use of arms.

Menico (Domenico) is a man of few words, due to his character he will be the shadow of Nino.

On this historical novel there is a perfect mix between true and fictional facts, and some curiosities.

One is that inside the papal prisons there were a section called and dedicated to the "Politician"

The second one is a dialect words for the papal policy i.e. "Sgherri" and "Regnicolo" a nickname for the inhabitants of the kingdom of Naples.

The historical facts of this novel, are true and verifiable, like the "Horse Fire" the papacies.

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