Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PICARESQUES
Noun
picaresques
plural of picaresque
Source: Wiktionary
PICARESQUE
Pic`a*resque", a. Etym: [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.]
Definition: Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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