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Feuding Renaissance Italians often used "cantarella" to poison each other. Slipped into wine, it was said to have no antidote and could be customized to kill in an hour or a week. Do we have any idea what cantarella was, and if it could really be so powerful and so customizable?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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