be used until they have been passed upon and approved. These concessions were accepted as satisfactory by the Senate, and authorisation was then given for the printing and promulgation of the Index in the territory of Venice. The influence of Paolo Sarpi in maintaining for the Venetian Republic the right of independent action in regard to censorship, and in refusing to accept as authoritative a regulation from Rome until it had been made to conform to Venetian requirements, was evidently still in force. After this _Concordat_ had been arrived at, a resolution was adopted by the Senate (and appears to have been accepted by Rome) that thereafter no book prohibition should be valid in Venetian territory until it had been promulgated by the Venetian Inquisition. Sarpi makes a criticism concerning Roman censorship methods which is in substance as follows: “The Roman authorities prohibit, as corrupt, the text of many valuable works, particularly of the class that have to do with political science and the rights of States; they prohibit many books which have no relation to matters of theology or religion and which they are in fact not competent to understand; they contest the right of the Republic itself to prohibit pernicious books.” In another passage Sarpi contends that the Roman _Index expurgatorius_ is especially faulty: “In these so-called expurgated editions, the reader can no longer ascertain the purport of the author but has before him simply the opinions of the Curia.”