Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

by Edited by Gigliola Fragnito , Translated by Adrian Belton

• ISBN13: 9780521202329
• ISBN10: 0521202329
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book covers one of the most controversial subjects in Italian historiography, namely the success or failure of the Church's policy during the counter-Reformation to exert rigorous control not only over theology but over all branches of knowledge. By drawing extensively upon newly-opened sources in the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office, generally known as the "Inquisition", it affords a more articulated and objective assessment of the effects of ecclesiastical censorship on religion and culture in early modern Italy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The central and peripheral organisation of censorship

How to doctor a bibliography: Antonio Possevino's practice

The Roman Inquisition's condemnation of astrology: reasons and consequences

Tradition and change in the spiritual literature of the Cinquecento

A project of 'expurgation' by the Congregation of the Index: treatises on duelling

The Index, the Holy Office, the condemnation of the Talmud and publication of Clement VIII's Index

Italian literature on the Index

The censoring of law books

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