The Mysterious Garden In Baglioni's Rappaccini

When the reader first meets Rappaccini, he is described as “a tall, emaciated, sallow, and sickly-looking man” (Anthology p.644). Rappaccini simply sounds too unhealthy to be around so many poisons and one has to wonder if the poisonous garden is why he is a sickly-looking man.
When, in his walk through the garden, he came to the magnificent plant that hung its purple gems beside the marble fountain, he placed a kind of mask over his mouth and nostrils, as if all this beauty did not conceal a deadlier malice; but finding his task still too dangerous, he drew back, removed the mask, and called loudly, but in the infirm voice of a person affected with inward disease (Anthology p. 644).
Rappaccini has been around the poisonous flowers in the

Baglioni cannot be around the smell of the fragrance for very long worrying that it would make him ill, much like the effect in which the garden has on Rappaccini. Neither Rappaccini nor Baglioni can handle being around the fragrance, but for some odd reason, Giovanni has never really had a problem with entering the garden or being there for short spurts of time with Beatrice. If anything, the poison has accepted him, seeping into his veins and choosing him for a

“ He remembered Baglioni's remark about the fragrance that seemed to pervade the chamber. It must have been the poison in his breath!” (Anthology p.658). He realizes a spider in the corner and horrified that it must have been his breath, he decides to breath on the spider. “Giovanni sent forth a breath, deeper, longer, and imbued with a venomous feeling out of his heart; he knew not whether he were wicked or only desperate. The spider made a convulsive gripe with his limbs, and hung dead across the window”.
Giovanni appears to have acquired Beatrice’s deadly poison when he kills the spider with his breath, his breath is different from hers, “imbued with a venomous feeling out of his heart” (p. 293). Was Giovanni then, deceived in imagining Beatrice to have killed in the same way? (Hawthorne and