Tofana

A great apothecary assures me that Madame la Tofana, that celebrated poisoner of Naples, principally made use of this receipt; all which is perhaps untrue.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In this manner it was that Tofana No. 2 was taken.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

For fifteen days, for example, they fought their way up these screes on the flanks of Tofana

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

I went up by automobile as far as the clambering new road goes up the flanks of Tofana No. 2; thence for a time by mule along the flank of Tofana No. 1, and thence on foot to the vestiges of the famous Castelletto.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

Meet punishment that and fitting for all the vile, accursed class, whether the agency employed be the famous, or, rather, infamous, "Aqua Tofana," or "Elixir of St. Nicholas," which could be gauged to do its hellish work in a day,

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

As the hag Tofana was the inventor of a new and deadly poison, so Lucius Aurelius Verus was the inventor of a new species of luxury.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

It embraces about thirty-five hundred people, scattered in hamlets and clusters of houses through the green basin with its four entrances, lying between the peaks of Tofana, Cristallo,

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

Opposite to us was the enormous mass of Tofana, a pile of gray and pink and saffron rock.

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

I asked; adding with a half-smile, "Are you the possessor of a specimen of the far-famed Aqua Tofana?"

A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889

Following the parallel of the Tofana, we get misty glimpses of the Cristallino peaks, of the Cristallo, of the Drei Zinnen, Sorapis, and the Croda Malcora.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873