Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Informationen zum Autor Gigliola Fragnito is Professor of Early Modern History in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy! Universit... degli Studi! Parma. Her many publications on early modern Italian church and government include La Bibbia al Rogo ('The Bible at the stake')! Il Mulino! 1997. Klappentext 2001 essay collection on the Italian Church's attempt to control and censor 'knowledge' during the counter-Reformation. Zusammenfassung Drawing upon a wealth of archival material! this 2001 book deals with 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 just over theology but over all branches of knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Gigliola Fragnito; 2. The central and peripheral organisation of censorship Gigliola Fragnito; 3. How to doctor a bibliography: Antonio Possevino's practice Luigi Balsamo; 4. The Roman Inquisition's condemnation of astrology: reasons and consequences Ugo Baldini; 5. Tradition and change in the spiritual literature of the Cinquecento Edoardo Barbieri; 6. A project of 'expurgation' by the Congregation of the Index: treatises on duelling Claudio Donati; 7. The Index, the Holy Office, the condemnation of the Talmud and publication of Clement VIII's Index Fausto Parente; 8. Italian literature on the Index Ugo Rozzo; 9. The censoring of law books Rodolfo Savelli.

Product details

• Authors: Gigliola Fragnito
• Assisted by: Gigliola Fragnito (Editor), Cesare Mozzarelli (Editor), Robert Oresko (Editor), Adrian Belton (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521661720
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66172-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics