The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)Putnam, George Haven
History
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
_In 1566_, _Pius V_ appointed a commission of five cardinals, who
associated with them twelve scholars, for the preparation of a new
edition of the _Corpus Juris Canonici_. The commission bore the name of
_Congregatio de emendatione decreti Gratiani_, and came to be known as
_Correctores Romani_. The work appeared in 1582, with two briefs (1580,
1582) of Gregory XIII directing that this edition should thereafter be
the sole authority, and prohibiting the printing of it with notes or
interpretations.
_In 1570_, were printed revised editions of the Book of the Mass
and the Breviary. Pius issued a Bull forbidding, under penalty of
excommunication, the further printing of liturgies except with special
privilege. The Bull permitted, however, the reprinting and the use of
liturgies that had been used for not less than two hundred years. Of
the Breviary of Cologne, which belonged to this class, an edition was
printed in 1576, with a privilege from Gregory XIII.[158]
_In 1583_, the famous treatise of Scaliger, _De Emendatione Temporum_,
received the honour of a special condemnation from Gregory XIII.
Gregory had some years earlier authorised the publication, without
the name of the author, of an expurgated edition of the _Adagia_ of
Erasmus. In 1575, at the instance of the Congregation, Gregory ordered
that all works by heretical authors which had been authorised for
publication in expurgated editions should be printed without the names
of their authors.
CHAPTER X
INDEXES OF THE NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, AND ITALY,
1569–1588
_1._ _1569._ _Antwerp._ Index, issued under the authority of an edict
of the king:
_Philippi II. Regis Catholici Edictum, de Librorum prohibitorum
Catalogo observando, una cum iis qui mandato Regiae Catholicae
Majestatis, et illustriss. Ducis Albani, consiliiq., Regii decreto,
prohibentur, suo quaeq. loco et ordine repositis._
This presents the Tridentine Index with certain titles interpolated,
and with some additional lists.
The decree of Philip makes reference to the _Taxae_ of the Church of
Rome. The wording is _Praxis et Taxa officinae poenitentiariae Papae_.
Mendham speaks of a monograph (of which he possessed a copy reprinted
from the Paris edition of 1520) entitled _Taxatio Papalis_, being an
account of the _Tax-book of the United Church and Court of Modern
Rome_, by Emancipatus. He states that Dr. Milner and other Catholic
writers had asserted that “this vile book had no existence but in the
imagination of heretics”; while Dr. Butler and others had taken the
ground that the work was simply a “record of fees of office.”[159]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account