The black widows of the Eternal City : the true story of Rome's most infamous poisoners / Craig A. Monson.
"The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause célèbre 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...
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Prologue: The Linener's Daughters of Tor di Nona
- Chapter 2. A Sting against Women
- Chapter 3. Secrets and Lies
- Chapter 4. Two Paesane
- Chapter 5. The Widows of Tor di Nona and the Dyer's Wife at the Elm
- Chapter 6. Reality Check
- Chapter 7. Slow Poison
- Chapter 8. Naughty, Deaf Cecilia
- Chapter 9. The Frenchman's Bride of Via della Croce
- Chapter 10. Wicked Laura
- Chapter 11. The Butcher's Wife of Ponte Sisto
- Chapter 12. The Duchess and the Lady.
- Chapter 13. The Seer of the Lungara
- Chapter 14. Cruel and Usual Punishment
- Chapter 15. The One that Got Away
- Chapter 16. Unfinished Business
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Rogues' Gallery: Those Implicated in the Investigation of 1659-60
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.