Gigliola Fragnito (ed.)

Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Herausgeber: Fragnito, Gigliola; Oresko, Robert; Mozzarelli, Cesare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2001 essay collection on the Italian Church's attempt to control and censor 'knowledge' during the counter-Reformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521661720
• ISBN-10: 0521661722
• Artikelnr.: 24310854

Autorenporträt

Gigliola Fragnito is Professor of Early Modern History in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Università 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.