 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1879 - 634 pages
...Gilpin brought the art into notice, have adorned their literary works in this manner. (See Engraving.) AQUA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary...seems to have invented it. According to Lobat, after sho had murdered many hundred men, she, was strangled, although, on the discovery of her guilt, she... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 638 pages
...Gilpin brought the art into notice, have adorned their literary works in this manner. (See Engraving^) AquA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary...centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure. Tolana, a Sicilian woman, seems to have invented it. According to Lobat, after she had murdered many... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 644 pages
...brought the art into notice, have adorned their literary works in this manner. (See Engraving.) AO_UA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary...centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure. Tofima, a Sicilian woman, seems to have invented it. According to Lobat, after she had murdered many... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...particularly from hot to cold, and from moist to a milder temperature. Aqua Tofana.—This is the name of a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary attention...end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Tofana, a Sicilian woman, seems to have invented it. According to Lobat, after she had murdered many... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 496 pages
...technical details of the art, see The Complete Aqualinter, by JH Green ; 3d edil, bond. 1810. AQOA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary...however, is obscure. Tofana, a Sicilian woman, seems to liave invented it. According to Lobat, after slie had murdered талу hundred men, she was strangled,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...technical details of the art, sec The Complete Aquatinter, by JH Green ; 3d edit. bond. 1810. AJJCIA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary...to have invented it. According to Lobat, after she liad murdered many hundred men, she was strangled, although on the discovery of lier guilt, she fled... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1842 - 454 pages
...died about the time of the rebellion. EVANS, Abel, generally styled Dr. Evans the Epigrammatist, lived at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. He was bursar to St. John's college, Oxford, vicar of Saint Giles* and appears to have been inti mate... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...For the technical details of the art, sec The Complete Aquatinter, by JH Green ; 3d edit. Lond. 1810. AQUA TOFANA ; a poisonous liquid, which excited extraordinary attention at Naples, at the end nf the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure. Tofana,... | |
 | New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 pages
...who, rather through good fortune and the influence of intrigue than merit, makes a conspicuous figure at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. The son of a pewterer in Anatolia, he became a baltadji, or wood-cutter, in the imperial palace at Constantinople... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 532 pages
...who, rather through good fortune and the influence of intrigue than merit, makes a conspicuous ñgure at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. The eon of n pewterer in Anatolia, he became a baltadji, or wood-cutter, in the imperial palace at Constantinople... | |
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Naples, at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure. 
