The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)Putnam, George Haven
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The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)
Putnam, George Haven
Freedom of the press; Liberty of conscience; Prohibited books
II. A somewhat similar distinction between heresiarchs and ordinary
heretics finds place in Louvain, 1546. The definition of heresiarchs
might, however, have been made a little more precise for the
information of the faithful, or a complete list of them might have been
given, as was done later by Quiroga (1594) and by Sixtus.
III. The later Indexes of Sixtus (1585), Alexander VII (1655), and
Benedict XIV (1756) proscribed, with some slight modifications in the
wording, all editions of the Scriptures edited or printed by heretics.
Alexander added, “the Holy Script or any portions of the same which
have, since 1515, been printed in metrical form.” Benedict restricts
this prohibition to metrical versions produced by heretics.
IV. Paul IV had permitted the reading of the Bible in the vernacular
only under authorisation of the Inquisition. Sixtus replaced the
milder regulation of Trent with his rule No. 7. The possession of the
Scriptures or of portions of the Scriptures printed in the popular
tongue is prohibited except under special authority of the Curia.
Paraphrases in the vernacular are unconditionally condemned. In later
Indexes, the prohibition was extended to cover all “summaries” and
historical compends of the Bible in the vulgar tongue. The acceptance
of these prohibitions varied in different lands and in different times.
In Spain, a Bible had been printed in the dialect of Valentia as early
as 1478. The first issue in the vernacular after that date was that of
1790, edited by San Miguel, later Bishop of Segovia. A second appeared
in 1823, edited by Amat, Bishop of Barcelona.
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