The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605 /
One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1977.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Venetian Bookmen. Publishers, printers, and sellers
- The size of the press
- Printing and selling
- Economic and social world of the bookmen
- The Inquisition. God, church, papacy, and republic
- Establishment of the Inquisition
- Operation of the Inquisition
- The Growth of Censorship. Renaissance attitudes toward censorship
- Early attempts at press censorship
- Edicts and indices of the 1540s
- The Catalogo of 1549
- The burning of the Talmud in 1553
- The index of 1554/55
- Heretical books and bookmen
- The index of Paul IV
- The Counter Reformation Implemented. Inspection of the bookstores
- The quarrel over the reformed canonical texts
- The Clandestine Book Trade. The smuggling network
- The market for prohibited books
- Venice and Rome Part Company. Lay jurisdiction over public morality
- The Republic tightens its supervision of the Holy Office
- The Republic Protects the Press. Economic decline of the press
- The roles of the press
- Defending the press
- The Waning of the Index. Preparation of a new index
- The Clementine index
- Struggle over promulgation
- The concordat
- Declining censorship
- The Impact of Index and Inquisition on Italian Intellectual Life
- Appendix I: Documents
- Appendix II: Inventories of Prohibited Titles, c. 1555-1604.