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Do you believe Mozart is poisoned by his rival?
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https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04...ng-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/
Early in the autumn of 1791, while he was still hard at work on the great requiem mass that would form such a large part of his legend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fell seriously ill. Convinced that there was no chance of recovery, he
Scholars have wrangled now for two full centuries over the circumstances of the great composer’s passing. A handful have concluded that he really was murdered. Most support rival diagnoses of syphilis, rheumatic fever or even the deadly effects of eating undercooked pork chops. Whatever the truth, though, and however he died, Mozart was certainly convinced that there existed a rare poison, one that was colourless, tasteless, odourless, beyond detection – and also so flexibly murderous that a carefully-calculated dose could guarantee a victim’s death a week, a month or even a year after it had been administered.
Nor was the composer alone in this belief. Forgotten though it is today, the mysterious liquid that he feared so much was one of the great whispered secrets of early modern Europe. Aqua Tofana was credited with what amounted to supernatural powers, and blamed for hundreds of agonising deaths. Which is odd, since it is very far from clear that it ever existed – and, if it did, what it was, where it was invented, where first used, and when and how it got its name.
How to destroy a man
Mozart on his death bed, surrounded by the materials for his unfinished requiem – a piece commissioned by an unknown patron via a mysterious “grey gentleman.” Romantic accounts of the composer’s death suggest that he came to believe that he was composing the requiem for himself.
The story as it is commonly told is this: Aqua Tofana was the creation of a Sicilian woman named Giulia Tofana, who lived and worked in Palermo in the first half of the 17th century. It was a limpid, harmless-looking liquid, a scant four to six drops of which were “sufficient to destroy a man.” Its principal ingredient was arsenic, and, while its use spread throughout much of southern Italy, it was typically administered by women to their husbands, most commonly in order to come into their fortunes – poisons were often known as “inheritance powders” in those days.
Early in the autumn of 1791, while he was still hard at work on the great requiem mass that would form such a large part of his legend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fell seriously ill. Convinced that there was no chance of recovery, he
began to speak of death, and asserted that he was setting the Requiem for himself… “I feel definitely,” he continued, “that I will not last much longer; I am sure that I have been poisoned. I cannot rid myself of this idea… Someone has given me acqua tofana and calculated the precise time of my death.
Scholars have wrangled now for two full centuries over the circumstances of the great composer’s passing. A handful have concluded that he really was murdered. Most support rival diagnoses of syphilis, rheumatic fever or even the deadly effects of eating undercooked pork chops. Whatever the truth, though, and however he died, Mozart was certainly convinced that there existed a rare poison, one that was colourless, tasteless, odourless, beyond detection – and also so flexibly murderous that a carefully-calculated dose could guarantee a victim’s death a week, a month or even a year after it had been administered.
Nor was the composer alone in this belief. Forgotten though it is today, the mysterious liquid that he feared so much was one of the great whispered secrets of early modern Europe. Aqua Tofana was credited with what amounted to supernatural powers, and blamed for hundreds of agonising deaths. Which is odd, since it is very far from clear that it ever existed – and, if it did, what it was, where it was invented, where first used, and when and how it got its name.
How to destroy a man
Mozart on his death bed, surrounded by the materials for his unfinished requiem – a piece commissioned by an unknown patron via a mysterious “grey gentleman.” Romantic accounts of the composer’s death suggest that he came to believe that he was composing the requiem for himself.
The story as it is commonly told is this: Aqua Tofana was the creation of a Sicilian woman named Giulia Tofana, who lived and worked in Palermo in the first half of the 17th century. It was a limpid, harmless-looking liquid, a scant four to six drops of which were “sufficient to destroy a man.” Its principal ingredient was arsenic, and, while its use spread throughout much of southern Italy, it was typically administered by women to their husbands, most commonly in order to come into their fortunes – poisons were often known as “inheritance powders” in those days.
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Looks like it’s common culture in Italy to poison enemies to death last time. And the rival suspected to poison mozart was italian.
http://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2008/09/the-art-of-poison/
While rulers were almost always in peril, it appears that no one was beyond the reach of poison in early modern Europe-not the Jewish merchant from Ferrara with a valuable diamond in his possession, who was poisoned by thieves in 1558; nor the Franciscan friars of Borgo San Sepolcro, who were killed in 1565 with the poisoned breads left at their convent by a mysterious stranger; nor the wives of two cuckholded husbands, Giangiacomo de' Medici di Marignano, and the Count of Bagno.
Wine and food were the most preferred means of delivering poison to an enemy. The Medici Archive demonstrates that other objects could also be laced with poison. Cosimo I de' Medici was warned in 1565 of a plot to poison his face towels; the Lutheran community in Seville was accused in 1561 of poisoning the wells of their Catholic neighbors; and Thomas Overbury, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, succumbed to poisons hidden in his medicine in 1615.
http://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2008/09/the-art-of-poison/
While rulers were almost always in peril, it appears that no one was beyond the reach of poison in early modern Europe-not the Jewish merchant from Ferrara with a valuable diamond in his possession, who was poisoned by thieves in 1558; nor the Franciscan friars of Borgo San Sepolcro, who were killed in 1565 with the poisoned breads left at their convent by a mysterious stranger; nor the wives of two cuckholded husbands, Giangiacomo de' Medici di Marignano, and the Count of Bagno.
Wine and food were the most preferred means of delivering poison to an enemy. The Medici Archive demonstrates that other objects could also be laced with poison. Cosimo I de' Medici was warned in 1565 of a plot to poison his face towels; the Lutheran community in Seville was accused in 1561 of poisoning the wells of their Catholic neighbors; and Thomas Overbury, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, succumbed to poisons hidden in his medicine in 1615.
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