meretricio

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Opera contra la Bestemmia; Ragioni Cattoliche, legali e politiche, in difesa della citta rovinata dall'insolentito meretricio; Il Cristiano

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
After alluding to Sixtus IV, he says that many state officers 'in civitatibus suis lupanaria construunt foventque, non nihil ex meretricio questu etiam ærario suo accumulantes emolumenti; quod quidem in Italiâ non rarum est, ubi etiam Romana scorta in singulas hebdomadas

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866