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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grendler, Paul F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1977.
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.