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gt; gt;CHAPTER 1gt; gt;In the Thick of Itgt; gt;gt;Igt;n the mountain village of Levie, Corsica, during the 1840s, Anton-Claudio Peretti became convinced that his wife, Maria-Angelina, was having an affair with another man and that, even worse, their daughter was not his child. Maria told Anton that she was going to leave him, and she made preparations to do so with her brother, Corto. That very evening, Anton shot his wife and daughter to death and fled to the mountains. The bereft Corto sorely wanted to kill Anton, but he could not find him. In a bit of violent symmetry that seemed sensible to residents of the area, Corto instead killed Anton’s brother, Francesco, and nephew, Aristotelo.gt; gt;It did not end there. Five years later, Giacomo, brother of the deceased Aristotelo, avenged the deaths of his brother and father by killing Corto’s brother. Giacomo wanted to kill Corto’s father too, but he had already died of natural causes, denying Giacomo the satisfaction. In this cascade of death, Giacomo and Corto’s brother were connected by quite a path: Giacomo was the son of Francesco, who was the brother of Anton, who was married to Maria, who was the sister of Corto, whose brothe

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Author
Christakis MD PhD, Nicholas A., Fowler PhD, James H.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co.; Little, Brown and Co./Hachette Book Group
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780316036139
Category
science
Subjects
Engineering, Sociology, Psychology
Rating
3.72 / 5 (2,068 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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