THE NAPOLITAN MAFIA

In 1498 the king of Napols died and a king of France called Lambert occupied the throne. To fule he had to marry the daughter of the king of France , slim and conceited young woman called Adeline. He was very happy about the news but she reminded herself that there was an enemies friend of his, who had been ccursing hin since she was very jealous. When his enemie's frien realized nthat Adeline would be the future queen, she was angry and she wanted to kill her. When Adeline learned that her enemie's friend. Chiara wanted to kill her, she decided to tell her sister Carola, who was always acompanied bt her husband Tomasso Martin to help her. Tomasso met knew a young healer who could take away the curse. The denext day Adeline acompanied by her sister and her brother- in -law visited Brunisenda, an expert on wichcraf. Tis woman tried to remove the curse but she told him that science could not eliminate her because of the grat envy tha Chiara felt for her. When the wich came home she heard some shouts behind some trees. The healer, curiously, went to see what hapended a young merchant was giveing birth. Ther healerhelp her, because she nwew thecniques of his topic, and finally the merchant gave birth. As a result of this fact, they became great friends. The days passed, by and the night before the wedding, Tomasso went to an inn to spend the night, there was Chiara talking to muslim men about how to kill the queen on the wedding day. When he stormed, he wnet to explain his wife, and together dediced not to warn Adeline not to make her suffer the day before her marriage. They went to explain it to the healer, sine he was a very rich and resourceful womas. She was acompained by her friend Antonella. They decide that if they saw something suspicious on the altar, they would try to stop it. At last, the wedding day arrived, the ceremony was very good, the banquet hour arrived. They ate a salad and a second course, a stuffed chicken and cod. Everithing was rinning smoothly until suddenly, two muslims were prepared to kill de queen, but by bad luck they killed the bishop, and it began to comment that the queen could not die because of the healer. So, they accused her of being a witch and tortured her until she was killed. Everyone ended less well that Antonella, who said that in the future she would take revenge on all those who had betrayed his best frind.