Cantarella

Cantarella was a poison allegedly used by the Borgias during the papacy of Pope Alexander VI. It may have been arsenic,[1] came in the shape of "a white powder with a pleasant taste",[2] and was sprinkled on food or in wine. If it did exist, it left no trace in the works of contemporary writers.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Bradford, S. (2005). Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. Penguin Books Limited. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-14-190949-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=1fM9rq0sDPgC&pg=PT190.
2. ↑ Strathern, P. (2009). The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped. Random House Publishing Group. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-553-90689-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=1UG1loD_HOgC&pg=RA1-Cantarella.
3. ↑ Noel, G. (2016). The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-4721-2507-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=jCDyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT192.

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