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The Bellentani case
Fegyverzyar automatic pistol mod. 37
cal 9 mm. Browning The murder weapon
Notorious criminals of the 20th Century
The remaining rooms are a sort of “curiosity cabinet” of crime, with a diverse range of exhibits from prisons around Italy, all of them relating to notorious crimes committed between the 1930s and the 1990s. This is a unique record of various types of criminal behaviour: espionage; organized crime – exhibits include objects that belonged to Salvatore Giuliano and Gaspare Pisciotta, Gennaro Cuocolo’s ring and Pupetta Maresca’s pistols; terrorism; gambling; and evidence relating to the theft and forgery of works of art.
A special area is devoted to murders and crimes that gripped the public’s attention in the 1940s and 1950s, especially objects relating to the case of Leonarda Cianciulli, known as the “Correggio soap-maker”, the gun used by Countess Maria Pia Bellentani in 1948 to kill her lover during a high-society dinner party, the weapon used in the Graziosi case, the weapons used by the Casaroli gang, items belonging to Antonietta Longo, known as “the beheaded woman of Castelgandolfo”, and the tools used for the robbery in Via Osoppo in Milan, which took place in 1958.
