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
Zwinger has found occasion in his list of popes to use for not a few,
descriptive epithets that are by no means honourable. Mendham remarks
that “no attainment of vice, and not even the taint of heresy has been
considered by the authorities of the Church to be of force sufficient
to bar the claim of the popes to doctrinal infallibility in matters of
faith and of morals.”[187]
The faithful student who might desire to utilise this expurgatory
Index as a guide for his own reading, or who might think it important
to verify the accuracy of the citations condemned as heretical, would
find difficulty in tracing these citations, as the expurgators have
not thought it desirable in a single instance to specify the page or
even the volume from which the alleged extract has been made. The
opportunity thus given for attributing heretical opinions to one author
or another is obvious. An article in the _Protestant Guardian_[188]
gives, as an example of the methods of these Madrid expurgators,
quotations from the corrections made in a treatise by Hernando de
Santiago, _Consideraciones sobre los Evangelios de la Quaresme_: “not
Abimelech, you mean Melchizedech; and where you speak of Pelagians you
certainly should say Socinians; books of chivalry should of course read
books of the Maccabees; on page 149, Persia should read Assyria, Anna,
the sister of Moses, is evidently an error for Miriam, while Tamar
should be changed to Dinah.”
A reprint was issued in Geneva, in 1619, by Turretin, professor of
divinity. The editor places on his title-page the following lines:
_Indices huic libro nomen praefigitur apte;
Nam proprio Sorices Indicis pereunt._
The allusion is to a line in Terence, _Eunuch._, Act V, scene 7,
_Egomet meo indicio, miser, quasi sorex, hodie perii_.[189]
_2._ _1617._ _Cracow Index Prohibitorius._--_Index Librorum
Prohibitorum; cum regulis et cum adjecta instructione de emendandis
imprimendisque libris et de exequenda prohibitione. Nunc in hac
editione congregationis cardinalium edictis aliquot, et librorum nuper
scandalose evulgatorum descriptione auctus. Cracoviae. 1617._ This
was issued under the instructions of Szykowski, Bishop of Cracow.
There had, it seems, been two previous editions, one initiated by
Macierowski, Bishop of Cracow, the other by Zamoyski, Bishop of
Chelmin. The above title is taken from Peignot.
_3._ _1624._ _Lisbon._ _The Inquisition._ _Prohibitorius et
Expurgatorius._
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