_6._ _1545._ _The Senate of Lucca._ The earliest catalogue issued in Italy of books condemned as heretical, which is entitled to be classed as an Index, was published in Lucca in 1545. This was seventy-one years after the introduction of printing into Italy, and fourteen years earlier than the first papal Index. The catalogue is published under the authority not of the bishop but of the Senate or Council of Magistrates, but the initiative probably came from the Inquisition. The edict orders that all copies of the books specified in the lists are, within fourteen days, to be delivered for burning, to the confessors or to the vicar of the bishop, under penalty of confiscation of property. _1549._ A supplementary edict of the Senate includes among the works condemned all anonymous works treating of religion or the Scriptures that have not secured the approval of the vicar. The catalogue, which is printed in Latin, presents the names of twenty-eight writers all of whose works are condemned, the list including Wyclif, Huss, Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Melanchthon, Carlstadt, Hütten, Hessius, Bomelius, and other less well-known names. Calvin does not appear. There are in addition the titles of about one hundred other pernicious books. A brief of Pius IV, issued in 1562, commends the Senate of Lucca for its “pious and praiseworthy decree.” Paul V takes a different position. Under an order issued by him in 1605 the Lucca decree is annulled on the ground that the repression of heresy is a matter that belongs exclusively to the Church, and concerning which laymen have no authority to take action. At the same time, he orders the institution in Lucca of an Inquisition tribunal.