Posted on 04/13/2024 3:14:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1560, the son of Renaissance polymath Gerolamo Cardano was beheaded for murdering his — the son’s — wife.
While Cardano pere was one of the great intellectuals of his era, and has been covered in these grim annals via his interest in a genius composer executed for sodomy, the fils earns notice merely for his famous relations.
The latter, Giambatista Cardano by name, committed nothing but a shabby domestic murder, dosing his wife Brandonia di Seroni — “a worthless, shameless woman” in Gerolamo’s estimation — with arsenic when he had tired of her infidelities.
Still, it is the burden of a father to love his firstborn no matter how undistinguished and homicidal. Cardano poured his sorrow into a long funerary verse, not neglecting therein to defend the prerogatives of a jealous husband’s “avenging right hand”; we obtain it from the old man’s autobiography.....
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Good one
I love his writing style. Thanks for posting.
what ever happened to good old school poisoning?
It’s funny. I didn’t think this one would be much of a hit.
I never know which ones are going to go over well and which will be a dud.
I don’t know how much longer these postings can go on. For many days, I feel like I’ve already posted all the possibly interesting ones and there haven’t been new ones on the site for almost four years.
I guess I can always start reposting the ones from the first year I started doing these.
I’ve enjoyed these too, but if they’re used up it might be time to start another series of postings. Everybody likes a bit of history, and if it’s macabre, so much the better.
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