The Black Widows of the Eternal City: The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

by Craig A. Monson

The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a particularly effective poison to murder their husbands. This notorious case has been frequently discussed over 350 years, but the earliest writers concentrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132040
• ISBN13: 9780472132041
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"