Giulia Tofana The Most Despicable Person In History

Aqua Tofana (also known as Acqua Toffana, Acquetta Perugina, and Aqua Tufania and Manna di San Nicola) was a strong poisonthat was reputedly widely used in Naples, Perugia, and Rome, Italy. During the early 17th century Giulia Tofana, or Tofania, an infamous lady from Palermo, made a good business for over fifty years selling her large production (she employed her daughter and several other lady helpers) of Aqua Tofana to would-be widows.

She was the queen of poison , in her confession she revealed her poison was used to kill more than 600 men in the 17th-century Italy.

Her clients were majorly married women who wanted to kill their husbands.

During the period women were forced into arranged marriages, and there was no option for divorce . The only reason for separation was death.

She turned her make-up business into a poison company.

She made tasteless and untraceable poison which she packaged into make-up containers.

The poison was so effective that it took about four drops to get the job done.

She was exposed by her client, and was later executed alongside her daughter and three other helpers.

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