Filadelfio Latteri (1837-12-15⟮1⟯Portale Antenati – after 1899) and Benedetta Todaro (1838-07-02⟮2⟯Portale Antenati – after 1899) were my great-great-grandparents, being the parents of Josephine Latteri. I have not found death records for either, but they were recorded as still living in 1899 when their daughter Anna married.⟮3⟯FamilySearch Both were born in San Fratello, Sicily, Italy, and Benedetta lived her whole life there as far as I can find, but Filadelfio was convicted of some unknown crime, and in the 1899 record is noted to be incarcerated in a prison in Brindisi, Italy.
Filadelfio was the son of Salvatore Latteri (1814 – after 1859) and Rosa Ragusa (1821-12-11⟮4⟯Portale Antenati – 1856-08-06⟮5⟯Portale Antenati), who married in San Fratello on 1836-04-12⟮6⟯Portale Antenati. Salvatore was the son of Benedetto Latteri. Salvatore’s brother Cirino is a great-great-grandfather of actor Al Pacino. Rosa’s surname is sometimes spelled Rausa.
Benedetta was the daughter of Filadelfio Todaro (1807 – bef 1890) and Giuseppa di Fede (c.1810 – 1891-05-07), who married in San Fratello on 1836-10-17⟮7⟯Portale Antenati. Filadelfio had previously been married to a woman whose name is barely legible, perhaps Teresa Crimi; no record of this marriage is found though it is referred to in the 1836 record. Giuseppa remarried to Salvatore Nobile after her husband’s death. Her maternal grandmother was Serafina Mondello.
Filadelfio and Benedetta married in San Fratello on 1859-02-21. I have found records of six children. Except where noted, all were found in San Fratello, but they may have left records elsewhere which my searches failed to turn up:
In my great-grandparents’ 1890 marriage record, Filadelfio “being convicted” (“essendo condannato”) was unable to give consent to the marriage⟮17⟯FamilySearch; by contrast, in the above 1884 marriage of Maria Teresa both parents give consent as normal. In 1890 he is still said to be living in (“residente in”) San Fratello. In the 1899 marriage of Anna, he is also unable to give consent due to being imprisoned in Brindisi, where he is said to be living. Thus, he served at least nine years, possibly much longer, and was moved to a far-off prison, suggesting a serious offense.
Filadelfio may have been held at the Swabian Castle of Brindisi (Castello svevo), which was a large prison in the 19th century.
My attempts to ascertain details of his conviction or his ultimate fate have been unsuccessful. Capital punishment had been de facto abolished in Italy since 1878, so it could have been as serious as murder.