Pox : Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2011) and JavaScript programming

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during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance

born in 1571 in south Germany

The kidnappers want her to retrieve the lost Olden Blade

while his comedy The Cherry Orchard portrays characters futilely clinging to the past as their land is sold from underneath them

Pox : Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2011) and JavaScript programmingWas Beethoven experiencing syphilitic euphoria when he composed "Ode to Joy"? Did van Gogh paint "Crows Over the Wheatfield" in a fit of diseased madness right before he shot himself? Was syphilis a stowaway on Columbus's return voyage to Europe? The answers to these provocative questions are likely "yes," claims Deborah Hayden in this riveting investigation of the effects of the "Pox" on the lives and works of world figures from the fifteenth through