Pox : Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis Condition:Well Read An accessible retelling of Shakespeare's

An accessible retelling of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

out of the city and across the desert

In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style

rallying writers to pen a poem each day over one month

Ken Fisher challenges the conventional wisdoms of investing

Pox : Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis Condition:Well Read An accessible retelling of Shakespeare'sWas 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