But...who were the victims?
Dedicated to mercifull mercer "Cochino"!
Part 1
The titled question, a key object of this " instant online research and publish" high wire act, has finally been answered: The victim was neither the Sonnet's maiden (post #1) or Al Aaraafs "Ianthe" (Angelica Palli), nor Guillelmo Cochini (William Henry "Poe"), but Anastasy, Yanni's father (possibly count Saint Germain's son) who was assasinated 1835 in Zante, his curriculum vitae, completed in the meantime with his service in Napoleon's war ministry, fully justifying the conclusion and the main motives of the assasins.
"Finally" because this very same question was wrongly answered in the past, the undersigned publicaly (Note 1 below) making a fool of himself
Elation and ignorance guiding back then, the "father" of greek heraldic science, E.R.Ragabe was even ignored who, in his "Livre d'Or de la noblesse Ionnienne", Athens 1927, specifies that the first "victim" was very much alive, till 1837 at least, his wife keeping on bearing his children until 1838.
There was good reason to ignore Ragabe however: In the "Preface" of his book he states that his only source were the alleged assasins themselves, the Luntzis (acting for the Salomons) . His data on the lawyer were furthermore contradictory (Note 2).
Anyhow, said letter was published and, about that time, the original research on the history of the hydrians was also published. Nobody reacted one way or another, yourstruly could have been content but wasn't, something was amiss, a bad odour floated around, so research continued and, save for the mistake made regarding the number of I.D.Cochini's children, Ragabe and his Luntzi source turned out to be trustworthy, on their Cochini data at least. .
As such, their info on Salomon's first witness, Dimitri-Giacomo(Note 3) had also be considered solid: Dimitrio to was alive until 1838 at least and , as such, the list of Zante candidate Cochini victims run dry: None had been assasinated. Their tentative involvement with the other side was already quite evident but no reason for such a treacherous act against their own family could be found or imagined even, other than money, an ugly scenario!
The item was left pending!
As the Announcement progressed, the Paris mercers were discovered and a lot was written re their dissapearance from Paris after Bastille, their jacobin links, their US and Zante Balsamo links and simultaneous presence etc etc. Earlier , upon the discovery of the eventual sanctification of the founder of the Paris Cochin Hospital, a very specific hint was made:"we'll see about him and that" we remember writing.
Before that, at the time this thread started, letters had been addressed to randomly selected members of the french Cochin etc families as well as to the French Cultural Institute in Athens (under the Foreign Ministry of France) asking for their cooperation in solving the family mysteries of wider national historic and cultural interest. Excepting an empty answer by the last, no other reply was ever received, "thickening the plot"!
Research continued in many fields in parallel revealing all sorts of "wonders". Returning to the Zante murder was kept for the end, the nightmarishly complex and unfathomably ugly truth almost impossible to go back to and, furthermore describe, thus the previous chapter, the cherry to the pie .
It's time to close books!
(continued in Part 2):
Note 1 With Andriolas diary revelation, everything "...fitted nicely together" thus in a letter published by a major Athens newspaper, the 25th March 2000, Dionysios Solomos was fingerpointed as the murder instigator of the lawyer I. D. Cochini(!!!), his brother Rev Nicolaos, terrorized by the event, compromised to be enthroned etc.
Note 2 He writes that Ioannis and wife had the following five children to then list and names nine, the last born 1838..
Note 3. Ragabe gives his full name as Dimitri Dion.Cochini only. The source of "-Giacommo" is the Mercati archive at the Heraldic Society of Athens.
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