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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1660.) Carta, Gabino. Guia de confessores, practica de administrar los sacramentos, en especial el de la penitencia. Woodcut of Mary on verso of title page. [4], 92 leaves. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum, minor wear; waste-paper endpapers, minor dampstaining, slight loss to final leaf, lacking rear free endpaper; Franciscan marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: Bernardo Calderon, 1660
Second Mexican edition of an important Jesuit guide for confessors in New Spain. "Explained that lust was the most evil emotion because it occasioned such heinous mortal sins as fornication, adultery, incest, rape (estupro), abduction (rapto), sins against nature, and sacrilege. Carta defined fornication as any sexual act outside the sacrament of marriage. He differentiated rape from abduction--the former as forced intercourse, the latter a violation compounded by the victim´s abduction. Having sex with a priest or nun or having sex in sacred places were but two of the sacrileges Carta had in mind when cautioned against excessive desire"--Ramón A. Gutíerrez, "A History of Latina/o Sexualities," pages 22-23. We find no examples of either Mexican edition sold at auction since 1907, though dealer Lathrop Harper offered one in 1945. Medina II:866; Palau 46261n.
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