Giulia Tofana helped Roman women escape unhappy, abusive marriages—by killing their husbands.
into the country’s culinary zeitgeist; and when unhappily married women would consult the help of Giulia Tofana… to have her , Tofana’s life is mostly patchworked by varying historical accounts—including her own confession—and there’s limited knowledge on the full details of her life.
Whatknown, however, is that she would eventually admit to killing at least 600 men. Damn. Hard to see someone else live out your dream.Orphaned and wanting to escape her past, she found herself in Rome without a husband and with her daughter, in a society that sucked for women—though I guess But at the time, women in Italy only really had three options: stay single and choose a life of sex work to make ends meet; get auctioned off to a probably unhappy marriage; or become a widow. So Tofana started helping women achieve the arguably most peaceful option.and a local priest, Tofana created the “Spana network,” an underground coalition of poisoners that helped women commit mariticide. They built for themselves a reputation among unhappy women, who could consult them and receive a bottle of arsenic-laced “Aqua Tofana,” or an arsenic-laced concoction disguised as cosmetic oils and. For the poison to work, it would be dropped into victims’ food and drink over a few days, with the sixth drop eventually landing the final blow. From the outside, the slow-burning murder looked like an incurable disease—which meant the clueless men would ensure their finances would go to their expectant widow before their death. Also involved in the Spana network were abortionists, midwives, and sorcerers—all of whom were said to have engaged in “black magic,” aka whatever doctors and priests didn’t understand anything about. It’s not exactly clear how or when Tofana got caught, but in some accounts, it happened when one of her clients regretted administering a few drops of Aqua Tofana into her husband’s soup. She stopped him from eating it, to which he apparently beat her until she confessed everything. Authorities then came after Tofana. She sought sanctuary in a church, but was extradited after a rumor came out that she was poisoning the water supply. . By the end, she allegedly confessed to killing as many as 600 men, and was executed with her daughter in 1659. than that of her poison, which made a resurgence in November 2024 under the widely shared slogan “Make Aqua Tofana Great Again” —a movement dedicated to fantasizing about lacing men’s drinks with poison, as a reaction to Trump’s
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