Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — Bigamy Common in Italy. [ARTICLE]

Bigamy Common in Italy.

Italy is said to have more bigamists, than any other European country. This is made possible because the church refuses to recognize civil marriages, and the state does not regard a church marriage as binding. The result is that unscrupulous men marry two wives— one with the sanction of the church, the other with the sanction of the law.