Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons(laphamsquarterly.org)
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Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons
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I wonder if he asked for more because he liked it or to be sure he didn't have to live through another overdose.
The article continues:
> The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt, on the assumption that he would go free if he survived, which he did not.
> The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt, on the assumption that he would go free if he survived, which he did not.
I can't make heads or tails of this. The poison was -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudaconitine from the Monkshood.
But what was in Caravita's Oil and did it even work or was it just chance that the prisoner lived? Google isn't much help as it all leads back to this same book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudaconitine from the Monkshood.
But what was in Caravita's Oil and did it even work or was it just chance that the prisoner lived? Google isn't much help as it all leads back to this same book.
Most likely, an early instance of snake oil.
I didn't realise that popes getting poisoned was a common occurrence at any time in history.
From about 756AD to 1870, the Holy See was its own country occupying much of central Italy. Popes during this time were subject to any and all risks that contemporaneous rulers would face in similar circumstances. Not only that, but many times during this era the Throne of St. Peter would be held by a man who might be the scion of a powerful and ruthless family (Borgia, Medici, Barberini)that had much experience with assassins...
The pope was the king of an aggressive military power for much of the church’s history.
You don't have to go far for this stuff [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
I don't see anything about poison?
Before you write it off as tinfoilhatter speculations [0], please consider this was the time in Italy when an acting Prime Minister (Giulio Andreotti) took active part in a hit job on a former Prime Minister (Aldo Moro) [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I_conspiracy_th...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Aldo_Moro
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I_conspiracy_th...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Aldo_Moro
The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt..."
Lol.