Year/Century: 18th century
Language: Latin
Subject: History
Binding: Leather
Description: Index Librorum Prohibitorum SSmi D.N. Benedicti XIV, Pontifiis Maximi jussu Recognitus, atque editus Romae, ex typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, 1758 Size 4.5 by 7" [12] + XXXVI + 304 pp, engraved title page (showing men throwing books into the fire). With title vignette. Original leather binding. Some wear of leather, very good interior. Text in Latin. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: Index of Forbidden Books) was a list of books that changed periodically and were deemed heretical or immoral by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia). Catholics were not allowed to print or read them, subject to local bishop approval. 1966 to 1560. It blacklisted publishers and outlawed hundreds of book titles, including the writings of Europe's intellectual elites. The Index graded works according to how revolting or harmful they were at the time to the church, condemning both religious and secular texts.[8] Its purpose was to keep churchgoers from reading publications that were politically, culturally, or theologically destructive. These volumes occasionally contained writings by saints, like philosopher Antonio Rosmini-Serbati and theologian Robert Bellarmine, Unapproved Bible editions and translations; works by philosophers, like Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); and astronomers, like Johannes Kepler's Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae (published in three volumes from 1618 to 1621), which was on the Index from 1621 to 1835. The Church's regulations for the reading, sale, and preemptive censoring of books were also included in editions of the Index.
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