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Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For scholars interested in Italy's cultural history

Uncovers the impact of church censorship on knowledge

You will understand Italy's rich yet suppressed cultural legacy

This book reveals how censorship shaped Italian culture in the Early Modern period.

The recent opening of the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome (the office of the 'Inquisition') has yielded an extraordinary wealth of documentation which is already altering dramatically many long-standing views on the repressive activity of the Roman church during the counter-Reformation. Drawing extensively upon this archival source, this book highlights the wide gap between the Church's aim to exert control over all knowledge and actual implementation. The plurality of the central offices, their contradictory decisions, and the inadequacy of the peripheral offices combined to hamper truly effective censorship. But despite this failure in developing a unified expurgatory policy, such prohibition as there was had a disastrous effect upon Italian culture, and for centuries Italians - jurists, scientists, Jews and common readers, as well as scholars - were deprived of their most cherished books.
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  • Title

    Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

  • Author

    Gigliola Fragnito

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 2001

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521661720

  • ISBN-10

    0521661722

  • Eden Code

    1192256

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