Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — RISEN FROM THE TOMB. [ARTICLE]

RISEN FROM THE TOMB.

The Romance of Benedello Marcello, the Venetian Composer. Benedello Mareello, one of the most famous Venetian composers, fell In love with a beautiful girl named Leonora Manfrotti, who married Paolo Seranzo, a Venetian noble. She died a short time after her marriage, a victim to the harsh and jealous treatment of her husband. Her body was laid out In state in the church of Wei Frarl, and her lover actually succeeded !n stealing the corpse and conveying It to a ruined crypt In one of the Islands, and here he sat day and night by his lost love, singing and playing to her, as though by the force of his art he could recall her to life. Leonora had a twin sister, Eliade, who Was so like her that her closest friends could scarcely distinguish them. One day Eliade heard a singer in a gondola singing so exquisitely that the traced the gondola to the deserted island, and there shq learned later the fate of her slater’s corpse and the Identity of Marcello. Aided by a servant, Eliade substituted herself for her Bister's body, and when Marcello returned and called Leonora to awake he did not ask In vain, for apparently she rose alive from the coffin. Marcello when he found out the delusion was quite satisfied and married Eliade, but his happiness was short lived, as he died a few years afterward. —London Telegraph.