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The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul / Eleanor Herman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herman, Eleanor, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder victims.
- Poisoning.
- History.
- Europe.
- Poisoning--Europe--Biography.
- Poisoning--Europe--History.
- Murder victims--Europe--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Murder victims--Europe--Biography.
- Poisoning--Europe--Biography.
- Poisoning--Europe--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Poison, poison, everywhere
- Poison from the banquet table to the royal underpants
- Unicorn horns and rooster dung : poison detectors and antidotes
- Dying to be beautiful : dangerous cosmetics
- Murderous medicine : mercury enemas and rat turd elixirs
- Putrid palaces : a poisoned environment
- The poison chronicles : where rumors of royal poisoning meet scientific analysis
- Henry VII of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor, 1275-1313
- Cangrande della Scala, Italian warlord, 1291-1329
- Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France, 1422-1450
- Edward VI, king of England, 1537-1553
- Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, 1528-1572
- Eric XIV, King of Sweden, 1533-1577
- Ivan IV, the Terrible, Czar of Russia, 1530-1584; his mother, Elena Glinskaya, ca. 1510-1538; and his first wife, Anastasia Romanovna, 1530-1560
- Grand Duke Francesco de Medici of Tuscany, 1541-1587, and Grand Duchess Bianca Cappello, 1548-1587
- Gabrielle d'EstreÌes, mistress of King Henri IV of France, 1573-1599
- Tycho Brahe, astronomer and imperial mathematician, 1546-1601
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, artist to Italy's elite, 1572-1610
- Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612
- Sir Thomas Overbury, royal adviser at the court of James I, 1581-1613
- Princess Henrietta Stuart of England, Duchesse d'OrleÌans, 1644-1670
- Mademoiselle de Fontanges, mistress of Louis XIV of France, 1661-1681, and the affair of the poisons
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, imperial court musician, 1756-1791
- Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, 1769-1821
- Poison in the modern era
- Scientific advances in the Victorian age
- The democratization of poison
- Modern Medicis : the rebirth of political poison
- The royal art of living and dying
- Pick your poison
- The poison hall of fame.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781250140869
- 1250140862
- OCLC:
- 1001326482
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