by Silvia Marchetti

ROMAN countesses, actresses and designers like the Fendi sisters have picked the Pontine islands, a cluster of paradise-atolls near Rome, as their élite summer retreat. But it wasn't so in the past.

It was a female inferno. Forget the glossy boutiques, wild night-life and elegant lounge bars packed with tanned beauties of all ages in search of romance. Women in ancient times were confined here to suffer. They fell into depression and a few were even sentenced to death. 

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