The
Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Sera, has informed that there
will be a love song in an auction, written by Al Capone, the notorious
Mafia boss, for his wife, Mae. It was composed while he was in the high
security jail of Alcatraz, where he had somehow managed to have the
Mayor's permission to form a small music band in the prison.
He was a great lover of opera, especially Italian, but he was also very keen on jazz, and played several instruments reasonably well. The opening bid for the song 'Madonna Mia' is fixed on $65,000, although the proprietor, Kenneth W. Rendell, an antique expert in historical documents, hopes to obtain a much higher price for it, where Al Capone showed his most sensitive side of his facet.
He was a great lover of opera, especially Italian, but he was also very keen on jazz, and played several instruments reasonably well. The opening bid for the song 'Madonna Mia' is fixed on $65,000, although the proprietor, Kenneth W. Rendell, an antique expert in historical documents, hopes to obtain a much higher price for it, where Al Capone showed his most sensitive side of his facet.
The melody is going to be recorded in CD's in the United States, according to the Chicago Tribune, as the promoter, Rich Larsen has organised a group for it, of which the only thing disclosed is that it was composed of a man, a woman, a violin, a piano, and of course, a mandolin. 'Madonna Mia / Tu eres como el florecer de Las rosas / eres la gracia que se encuentra / en el corazon de una cancion / Madonna Mia ...'.
Al Capone's poem will not go down in the history of poetry, but those who listen to the theme would admit, that it has certain grace and tenderness, besides waking up the morbidness of the audience to discover the sensitive soul of one of the most infamous and violent criminals in the history.
The verses show a man in love, romantic, emotional and passionate, while the various biographies written about him illustrate a type of man cruel, without scruples, amoral and responsible for a great number of assassinations. On that Saint Valentine's Day of 1929 he and his men killed 5 crime bosses of his rival gang in a garage, before having liquidated all of his rivals in a series of interminable Mafia disputes.
Aren't human beings complicated and complex creatures?
Goethe wrote that evil needs no reason, just pretext is enough to let loose the beast from within.
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