De Delictis et Poenis Tractatus Absolutissimus
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"Le traité De Sodomia fût édité à Venise en 1700, puis mis à l’Index par l’Église en 1704 et 1709, avant de paraître dans l’édition des Œuvres complètes (Rome, 1754) de Sinistrari. Le texte est bien extrait du grand œuvre de Sinistrari de Delictis et poenis, comme l’explique dans son avertissement l’édition de La Bibliothèque des curieux (Paris, 1920). Mais c’est à Alcide Bonneau (1836-1904) que nous devons sa redécouverte. Il le publie en latin with Isidore Liseux, Paris, 1875."[1] "'For Sinistrari d'Ameno,' observed Durtal, "'the incubi and succubi are not precisely demons, but animal spirits, intermediate between the demon and the angel, a sort of satyr or faun, such as were revered in the time of paganism, a sort of imp, such as were exorcised in the Middle Ages. Sinistrari adds that they do not need to pollute a sleeping man, since they possess genitals and are endowed with prolificacy.'"--Là-Bas (1891) by Joris-Karl Huysmans |
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De Delictis et Poenis Tractatus Absolutissimus (1700, The Most Absolute Treatise of Crime and Punishment) is a criminal codex drawn up by Italian Franciscan Ludovico Maria Sinistrari.
De Sodomia was a chapter in this book and was concerned with sexual offenses.
In 1688, when he was 66, the Friars Minor selected Sinistrari to draw up a criminal code for their community. He labored for a dozen years, finally publishing it a year before his death.
