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Victor Mochere
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Aqua Tofana occupies a singular place in the popular imagination of early-modern crime: a discreet, tasteless liquid that purportedly allowed wives to kill their husbands with minimal suspicion and disappear back into domestic life. The tale combines documented criminal proceedings, contemporaneous rumor, legal anxieties about household order, and later myth-making. Unlike the dramatic stabbings and [β¦]
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