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NOVEDAD
Adjective. It is said especially of an action and also applied to an unworthy, indecorous or infamous person, who cannot be spoken of without disgust, repugnance, terror or atrocity, which can be ignominious, perverse, abominable or shameful, because it goes against good customs, morality and ethics. Sin of sodomy or the practice of anal intercourse, also called a nefarious sin.
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Eating together on a plate and drinking it in a cup, dividing the drink, the first serving the said doctor and then giving it to the said Don Diego, telling him to drink this, Diego, for the love of me, for the life of me, and the said doctor did the same with the food, biting it. and giving them bites to eat to the said Don Diego (...) the said Diego and Luis de Herrera are not master and servant but people so compliant and equal that one never deviates from the other one point nor does more than what the said Luis wants of Herrera and wherever one goes the other goes and between them going outside there is nothing but just a bed" [...] "the said Negro was so beloved that they once saw the said Barros who was in the cavalleriça sitting on a manger and had one arm on the neck of the said black man and the other hand holding onto him.
[Verbatim transcription by Fernanda Molina]
Testimony from a trial against homoerotics.
Viceroyalty of La Plata (Argentina).
