The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 2 (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 2 (of 2)
Putnam, George Haven
Freedom of the press; Liberty of conscience; Prohibited books
Sue, Eugene, _Mystères de Paris_, printed in 1843, prohibited in
1852; _Le Juif Errant_, printed in 1845, prohibited in 1852. Later in
the same year, Sue’s name was placed upon the Index connected with
the term _Opera omnia_. In 1864, the list of French authors all of
whose works were prohibited includes the following names: Balzac,
Champfleury, Dumas the elder and Dumas the younger, Feydeau, Murger,
Sand, Soulié, and Stendhal. The name of Flaubert appears in the same
year in connection with two only of his romances. The volume of the
Abbé Michon, published anonymously under the title _Le Maudit_,
was prohibited in the year of its publication, 1864, and the later
volumes issued as by the author of _Le Maudit_ were prohibited as
they appeared. Since 1864, the compilers of the Index have given
comparatively little attention to French fiction.
In 1834, the _Chansons_ of Béranger were prohibited. Some of these
had been printed as far back as 1815. Additional titles from French
literature are as follows:
Lamartine, Alph. de, _Souvenirs d’un Voyage en Orient_, printed in
1835, prohibited in 1836.
Hugo, Victor, _Notre Dame de Paris_, printed in 1831, prohibited
in 1834; _Les Misérables_, printed in 1836, prohibited in 1864.
The famous volumes by Ferd. Fabre, _Lucifer_ and _L’Abbé Grand_,
curiously enough escape condemnation.
The selections of this period from German literature are
inconsiderable. They include:
Lessing, _Erziehung des Menschen-geschlechts_, prohibited 1835.
Heine, H., _Reisebilder_, printed in 1834, prohibited in 1836;
_De la France_, printed in 1833, prohibited in 1836; _De
l’Allemagne_, printed in 1835, prohibited 1836; _Gedichte_,
printed in 1844, prohibited in 1845.
In 1855, Mrs. Stowe’s _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ was prohibited, under
some special instruction, as far as its sale in the papal States was
concerned. The title does not find place in the Index.
The small group of Spanish and Portuguese works includes the following
titles:
Torres, _Quentos en verso Castilano del Remédo de la Melencholia_,
prohibited 1824.
Tressera, _El Judio Errante_, prohibited 1864.
The long series of anti-clerical romances by Benito, Perez, and Galdós
escape condemnation.
Stockler, _Poezias Liricas_, printed in 1820, prohibited in 1836.
The Italian list includes:
Foscolo, Ugo, translation of Sterne’s _Sentimental Journey_, printed in
1817, prohibited in 1819; _La Commedia di Dante_, illustrated, printed
in 1830, prohibited in 1845.
Zaccheroni, G., an edition of Dante’s _Inferno_ with notes, printed
in 1838, prohibited (as far as the introduction and the notes are
concerned) by the Inquisition in 1840. The larger number of the
commentaries on Dante are condemned as printed.
Guerrazzi, Dom., _L’Assedio di Firenze_, printed in 1830, prohibited in
1837. His later romances, _Isabella Orsini_ and _Beatrice Cenci_, were
prohibited promptly on publication, the former in 1844, the latter in
1854.
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