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TIL studies of the archives of the "office of the night", a government office tasked with prosecuting homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, reveals that in a city of 40,000 inhabitants a whopping... (www.rictornorton.co.uk)

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Original Title: TIL studies of the archives of the "office of the night", a government office tasked with prosecuting homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, reveals that in a city of 40,000 inhabitants a whopping 16,000 men were implicated in sodomy accusations, although only around 3k cases ended up in convictions

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