Show DUELING IN ITALY criminal proceedings against L lieven exevea deputies depati in rome home italian deputies have constituted the majority of each of the three peace con grosses held in recent years in rome and abd they have written and published a whole literature of pamphlets pamphlet entitled down with weapons the universal peace war innvar abolished etc at the same time they have remained the most pugnacious lot of parliamentary depre in the world hardly a session of parliament passes without a dozen or more duels among the members coming to general notice and probably as many more are arc fought and finished in secrecy at present says the new york sun criminal proceedings have been begun against eleven deputies forduc for duels ls fought by them last summer deputy roux must ans answer er for his participation in in two meetings the other ten are charged with one duel each in four meetings blood flowed although nobody was ivas injured mortally the other duels were concluded without pain or pe peril ril to anybody statistics for ten years in italy show that the deputies do not misrepresent their country by their readiness to settle disputes with weapons between 1880 and 1890 1800 2759 duels were fought of these 2489 were fought with sabers with pistols and go 90 with rapiers lapiers ra piers fifty duels resulted in death 1000 in severe wounds 1400 in slight wounds in cases cabes newspaper articles and in TW cazes cases oral disputes disputer gave cause for mec meetings tings in meetings there was a woman in the case in a blow was struck in 1 29 10 differences is as to religion were to be settled in 19 10 gambling caused the quarrel since the begin beginning of 1890 when dueling wah wa made punishable bable with jm imprisonment for from three days to three months the number of meetings has decreased in but duels were fought and in 1891 only the fact that eleven deputies are arc being prosecuted for violating the law shows that dueling is a national pastime which italian gentlemen will not abandon without a struggle most of them batill fat in the spirit of the neapolitan noble nobleman inki who after bulliv fought thirty duels to defend his opinion that donw was a greater poet than peare confessed confes bed on his deathbed that he had never read the works of either cither |