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Introducing the "Lottery of Death" A little over a month after the execution of Paulino Pallás atop nearby Montjuich mountain, much of the anxiety that had plagued Barcelona elites had begun to fade. Things seemed to be gradu ally returning to normal. Certainly, the early November explosion of the Cabo Machichaco transporting dynamite to the port of Santander that killed 590 people renewed the pervasive fear of explosives, but at least it was acci dental. For some, the opening of the winter season of the opera at the Liceo Theater must have been a welcomed diversion from dynamite. This was especially true for the wife and two daughters of General Martínez Campos, the target of Pallás's bombing, who filed into the near-capacity crowd of four thousand to experience Rossini's William Tell on the rainy evening of November 7, 1893. 1 "In the theater were the most f lorid, the most brilliant of the bourgeoisie," "the most select of Barcelona society," "a very distin guished crowd," who applauded and whistled for several hours until two Orsini bombs cascaded from the fifth f loor of the balcony into the crowd below toward the end of the second act. 2 After a relatively quiet explosion, th

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN