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Renaissance warlord Cangrande della Scala, long thought to have died from disease, was poisoned, scientists claimFor centuries it was thought that he died of disease after drinking filthy water from a spring, but scientists now believe that a Renaissance warlord who waged bloody campaigns across Italy met a much more sinister end.Cangrande della Scala, who was a patron of the poet Dante Alighieri, carved out a powerful fiefdom in northern Italy, conquering the cities of Verona, Padua and Vicenza.
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