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  1. Eleanor Herman _ The Royal Art of Poison:

    Divine grace, Caravaggio shows us, is not reserved for the rich and powerful, but falls equally on the poor and humble.
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  2. Eleanor Herman _ Murder in the Garden of God: A

    In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320
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  3. Eleanor Herman _ Murder in the Garden of God: A

    A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
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  4. Eleanor Herman _ The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal

    Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man-a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.
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  5. Eleanor Herman _ The Royal Art of Poison:

    Maimonides likewise recommended immediate vomiting after consuming suspect food and praised rooster dung as one of the most effective means to bring this about. "It is said that excrements of roosters have a specific property to eliminate every poison by vomiting," he proclaimed.
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  6. Eleanor Herman _ The Royal Art of Poison:

    To cure epilepsy, doctors concocted recipes of dried human heart or made a potion of wine, lily, lavender, and an entire adult brain, which weighed about three pounds. Human fat was used to treat consumption, rheumatism, and gout. Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man-a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.
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  7. Eleanor Herman _ Sex with the Queen: 900 Years

    In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams.
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  8. Eleanor Herman _ Mistress of the Vatican: The

    Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time."
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  9. Eleanor Herman _ Sex with Kings: 500 Years of

    History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss.
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  10. Eleanor Herman _ Sex with Kings: 500 Years of

    The more I see of men," she grumbled in one, "the more I love dogs."50
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  11. Eleanor Herman _ Mistress of the Vatican: The

    O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. -Lucrezia de' Medici O
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  12. Eleanor Herman _ Mistress of the Vatican: The

    Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. -Michel de Montaigne O
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