Satan's Drink: One Papal Sip That Saved Coffee
Renaissance

Satan's Drink: One Papal Sip That Saved Coffee

Venetian merchants spent 1615 smuggling a drink the Pope had branded Satan's beverage, until a single papal sip changed the fate of two continents.

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RenaissanceVaticanOttoman EmpireVeniceCoffee TradePope Clement VIIIReligious ControversyEnlightenmentCultural ExchangeEconomic HistoryItalyEarly Modern Europe

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