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Giovanni di Giovanni (c. 1350 – May 7, 1365?) is one of the younger victims of the campaign against sodomy, waged in Florence since the Middle Ages against the majority male population of the city. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Sodomy (ˈsɒdəmi is a term used today predominantly in Law (derived from traditional Christian usage to describe the act of Anal intercourse, Oral intercourse Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany

He was convicted by the Podestà court of being the passive partner of a number of different men. For information on the phantom island of the same name see Podesta (island. He was labeled "a public and notorious passive sodomite. " His punishment was to be paraded on the back of an ass, then to be publicly castrated. Castration (also referred to as Gelding, Neutering, Fixing, orchiectomy, and orchidectomy is any action surgical, chemical Finally, he was to have his anus burned with a red-hot iron (or, as the sentence read: "[punished] in that part of the body where he allowed himself to be known in sodomitical practice. ") It is presumed he did not survive the ordeal. [1][2]

His prosecution came on the heels of the Black Death, the bubonic plague epidemic which had ravaged the city two years earlier. The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest Pandemics in human history widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia Bubonic plague is the best-known manifestation of the bacterial disease plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Many in the religious establishment associated the disaster to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and blamed sodomites for having brought the wrath of God down on the heads of the populace. God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. The remedy they promoted was to purify the city of evil by means of fire, leading to burnings at the stake and other punishments such as that suffered by Giovanni di Giovanni. Evil, in many cultures is used to describe acts or thoughts which are contrary to some particular religion

References

  1. ^ Rocke, Michael (1996). Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. Oxford University Press, pages 24, 227, 356, 360. ISBN 0195122925.  
  2. ^ Meyer, Michael J (2000), Literature and Homosexuality, Rodopi, ISBN 904200519X 

See also

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