"Giulia Tofana started helping women achieve the arguably most peaceful option. With the help of her 30-something-year-old daughter and a local priest, Tofana created the 'Spana network,' an underground coalition of poisoners that helped women commit mariticide."
"Tofana is widely believed to have been born in Palermo, Sicily, around the late 16th century, allegedly to a mother who was eventually executed for poisoning her own husband."
"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 holy water."
"Tofana would eventually admit to killing at least 600 men. Though he was born 136 years after her, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also blamed her for his death, or rather the poison she created."
Giulia Tofana, born in late 16th-century Sicily, became notorious for helping women poison their husbands in 17th-century Italy. Orphaned and seeking to escape her past, she established the 'Spana network' with her daughter and a local priest. This underground coalition provided arsenic-laced 'Aqua Tofana' disguised as cosmetics, allowing women to commit mariticide. Tofana is believed to have admitted to killing at least 600 men, reflecting the desperate measures women took in a society that offered limited options for their futures.
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