In Renaissance Italy, women lacked basic rights and often faced a harsh life in violent and loveless marriages. In this episode we enter the world of cunning makeup maestro Giulia Tofana — a skilled poisoner who offered women a discreet way to dispose of problem husbands through the lethal concoction ‘Aqua Tofana’. 

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A Podcast About Murder is written, hosted and edited by Freya Teagray and Jem Lewis 

Theme song and outro music by Sly Beggar