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Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy

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Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment

Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy

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Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy book

Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment
ByPatrizia Delpiano
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 7 September 2017
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315141862
Pages 266
eBook ISBN 9781315141862
Subjects Humanities
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Delpiano, P. (2017). Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315141862

ABSTRACT

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).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|43 pages

From the Spoken to the Written Word

chapter 2|62 pages

The World of the Index

chapter 3|45 pages

Hunting for Books

chapter 4|61 pages

In Pursuit of Public Opinion

chapter |14 pages

Conclusion

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