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   Spanish Inquisition

   The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was a tribunal established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. ... The last execution in persona for sodomy by the Inquisition took place in Zaragoza in April 1633.
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   Sodomy

   Sodomy (pronounced /ˈsɒdəmi/) is a term used today predominantly in law (derived from traditional Christian usage) to describe the act of anal sex, oral sex, or zoophilia. ... Medieval Inquisition, hereticism, and witchcraft
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   Pederasty in the Renaissance

   It also saw a lot of oppression of homosexual and pederastic expressions of attraction by the Roman Catholic Church especially through the machinery of the Inquisition, most infamously the Spanish Inquisition. ... However this number also includes heterosexual sodomy.
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   LGBT rights in Spain

   The rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (LGBT) persons in Spain have undergone several drastic changes in recent decades. ... It fell under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition only in the territories of Aragon, when, in 1524, Clement VII, in a papal brief, granted jurisdiction over sodomy to the Inquisition of Aragon, whether or not it was related to heresy.
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   John III of Portugal

   Portuguese royalty House of Aviz-Beja ... The activities of the Inquisition extended to book censorship, repression and trial for divination, witchcraft and bigamy as well as the prosecution of sexual crimes, especially sodomy.
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   Timeline of LGBT history

   1232 – Pope Gregory IX starts the Inquisition in the Italian City-States. ... 1655 – The Connecticut Colony passes a law against sodomy including women.
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   LGBT in Mexico

   When the Toltecs arrived to conquer the region, they brought more sodomy and public sex of all kinds. ... Mexican independence from Spain in 1821 brought an end to the Inquisition and the colonial homosexual oppression.
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   LGBT history

   This number also included heterosexual sodomy.[citation needed] ... An important shift in the terminology of homosexuality was brought about by the development of psychology’s inquisition into homosexuality.
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   Pope Sixtus IV

   On November 1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV published the Papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, through which the Spanish Inquisition was established in the Kingdom of Castile. ... The English theologian John Bale attributed to Sixtus "the authorisation to practice sodomy during periods of warm weather".
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    List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy

    Guglielmo Borsiere, a pursemaker accused of sodomy (see Sodom), who made a joke that was the subject of the Decameron (i, 8). ... Farinata was posthumously condemned as a heretic during the Franciscan inquisition of 1283.

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• List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy

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