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Synopsis
In Rome, towards the end of the '400, clandestines excluding, were available approximately 6800 prostitutes. In Venice the prostitutes were forced to walk with a yellow handkerchief around the neck like sign of acknowledgment. It was the sexual abstinence that the Church adopted as a remedy in order to avoid such disease and Pope Paul IV, around to the half of the '500, decreed with an edict an evicting from Rome and all the Papal State of the prostitutes. The popular rebellion forced the Church to find a center to pratice prostitution across Tevere: today Trastevere. In the De preservatione a carie gallica of 1555, Gabriele Falloppia devised one individual protection against syphilis consisting in one patch of linen to shape of bag ad mensuram glandis soaked with mercury: it was the forerunner of the modern condom.