Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Title | Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Patrizia Delpiano |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351393391 |
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).
Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Title | Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Gigliola Fragnito |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2001-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521661720 |
2001 essay collection on the Italian Church's attempt to control and censor 'knowledge' during the counter-Reformation.
Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing
Title | Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing PDF eBook |
Author | Lodovica Braida |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3031038983 |
This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship, modesty, fear of personal criticism, or simple divertissement. In many cases, it was an ethical choice, especially for ecclesiastics. The Italian case provides a key perspective on the study of anonymity in the European context, contributing to the analysis of an overlooked topic in academic studies.
Forbidden Prayer
Title | Forbidden Prayer PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Caravale |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317134192 |
This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, to purge various devotional texts in the Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements, while imposing a rigid uniformity in liturgical and devotional practices. The first part of the book is focused on Rome's anxious activity toward the infiltration of Protestant ideas in vernacular treatises on prayer meant for mass consumption. It next explores how, only in the second half of the sixteenth century, once Rome's main preoccupation toward Protestant expansion had subsided, the Church could begin thinking about a move from a rejection of any consideration of the merits of interior prayer to a recovery and acceptance of mental prayer. The final section is dedicated to the primary objective of the Church's actions in purging superstitious practices which was not simply the renewal of the spiritual life of the faithful, but also the control of the religious and social life of many faithful who were uneducated. Based on a careful examination of the archival records of the two Roman dicasteri in question, many of which have only been accessible to scholars since 1998, as well as a close reading of the many of suspect devotional texts themselves, this book offers a fascinating contribution towards a fuller appreciation of the complex landscape that characterized the spiritual realities of early modern Italy.
Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italy
Title | Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004685138 |
The open access publication of this book was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. This volume sheds new light on modern theories of natural law through the lens of the fragmented political contexts of Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic changes of the times. From the age of reforms, through revolution and the ‘Risorgimento’, the unification movement which ended with the creation of the unified Kingdom of Italy in 1861, we see a move from natural law and the law of nations to international law, whose teaching was introduced in Italian universities of the newly created Kingdom. The essays collected here show that natural law was not only the subject of a highly codified academic teaching, but also provided a broader conceptual and philosophical frame underlying the ‘science of man’. Natural law is also a language wherein reform programmes of education and of politics have taken form, affecting a variety of discourses and literary genres. Contributors are: Alberto Clerici, Vittor Ivo Comparato, Giuseppina De Giudici, Frédéric Ieva, Girolamo Imbruglia, Francesca Iurlaro, Serena Luzzi, Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Emanuele Salerno, Gabriella Silvestrini, Antonio Trampus.
Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Title | Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Mónica Bolufer |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031469399 |
The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature
Title | The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | George Haven Putnam |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Freedom of the press |
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