Mozart was a sissy - for real hip-hop style thuggery, check out Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613).
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
In 1586 Gesualdo married his first cousin, Maria d'Avalos, the daughter of the Marquis of Pescara. Two years later she began to have a love affair with Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria; evidently she was able to keep it secret from her husband for almost two years, even though the existence of the affair was well-known elsewhere. Finally, on October 16, 1590, when Gesualdo had allegedly gone away on a hunting trip, the two lovers took insufficient precaution at last (Gesualdo had arranged with his servants for the doors to be left unlocked), and he returned to his palace in Naples, caught them in flagrante delicto and brutally murdered them both in their bed; afterwards he carried their mutilated bodies to a public place in Naples and left them for all to see. (Maria was "viciously stabbed in the parts which it is best for a woman to keep modest," read a contemporary account.) Being a nobleman he was immune to prosecution, though not to revenge, so he fled to his castle at Gesualdo where he would be safe from any of the relatives of either his wife or her lover.
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Then he lived 23 more years and got married AGAIN! His music is excellent though...