Science and Religion
- Title page.
- Index Librorum prohibitorum, cum regulis confectis per patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctis. D. N. Pii III, Pont. Max. comprobatus.
- Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1570.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books) is a list of publications banned by the Catholic Church because of their heretical or immoral content. While the Church had been publishing this sort of lists from the fifth century, the first comprehensive and universally accepted Index, greatly shaped by the recent doctrinal rules of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), was published in 1564.
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- Fragnito, Gigliola. 2001. Church, Censorship, and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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- Marcus, Hannah. 2020. Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.