Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series
Auteur : Delpiano Patrizia
Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership to regulate the press and culture during a century characterized by important changes, from the spread of the Enlightenment to the creation of a state censorship apparatus. Based on the archival records of the Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index of Forbidden Books preserved in the Vatican, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the Catholic Church?s endeavour to keep literature and reading in check by means of censorship and the promotion of a "good" press.
The crisis of the Inquisition system did not imply a general diminution of the Church?s involvement in controlling the press. Rather than being effective instruments of repression, the Inquisition and the Index combined to create an ideological apparatus to resist new ideas and to direct public opinion. This was a network mainly inspired by Counter-Enlightenment principles which would go on to influence the Church?s action well beyond the eighteenth century.
This book is an English translation of Il governo della lettura: Chiesa e libri nell?Italia del Settecento (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007).
Introduction
1. From the Spoken to the Written Word
2. The World of the Index
3. Hunting for Books
4. In Pursuit of Public Opinion
Conclusion
Patrizia Delpiano is professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin, Italy.
Date de parution : 12-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Lettres Juives; Young Men; benedict; Eighteenth Century Italy; xiv; Benedict XIV; clement; Donec Corrigatur; Scienza Della Legislazione; judgments; Index Librorum Prohibitorum; Code De La Nature; Holy Office; Prospero Lambertini; Censorship Judgments; Gregorio Barbarigo; Clement XIV; Il Pastor Fido; Bassano Del Grappa; Buon Senso; Roman Holy Office; Active Counter-revolution; Casanatense Library; Protestant Heresy; Savoyard State; Ecclesiastical Celibacy; Lettered Men; Clement XIII