{ Chapter Fourteen }
Persecutor of priests and the most famous of the birri, Lo Vecchio was killed near the Cathedral in 1719. There is a narrow street in the Albergheria named after him: Vicolo Matteo Lo Vecchio. AC, 131.
The Albergheria is the oldest of Palermo’s original mandamenti, or districts, where the Phoenicians founded the city.
Matteo Lo Vecchio lived in the Albergheria
Matteo Lo Vecchio and his pursuer, leaving the Palazzo Albamonte in Piazza della Mercede, walk along the present day Via Beati Paoli, then, going beyond the Piazza Beati Paoli where the Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano is located, continue along Via Sant’Agata alla Guilla in the direction of the Cathedral, skirting the large complex of the Collegio Massimo dei Padri Gesuiti, today the Biblioteca Regionale e Convito Nazionale. AC, 132.