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
The Index also contains the series of works having to do with the long
contests between the Franciscans and the Dominicans, the Augustine
hermits and the Augustine choristers, the Augustine choristers and
the Benedictines, the Benedictines and the Hieronymites (followers
of St. Jerome), the Mercedarians and the Trinitarians. The list also
includes certain writings presenting the traditions or records of
the Carmelites. In 1698, Innocent XII issued a general prohibition
in regard to the printing or the distribution of the whole group of
writings concerning the controversies of the Orders.[26]
The long contest carried on between the Carmelites and the Jesuits
brought about the condemnation in Spain, in 1695, the _Acta
Sanctorum_ of the Bollandists, printed in fourteen volumes.
This prohibition was recalled in 1715. In Rome only one volume was
prohibited and this on another ground. In 1755, was prohibited a work
issued under the title of _Ordres Monastiques; Histoires extraites
de tous les auteurs qui ont conservé à la postérité ce qu’il y a de
plus curieux dans chaque ordre_. The work, printed in 1751 in seven
volumes, bears the imprint of Berlin but was supposed as a matter of
fact to have been issued in Paris. It was ascribed to the Abbé Musson.
The _Pragmatische Geschichte der vornehmsten Mönchsorden_, printed
in Leipsic in 1774, in ten volumes, was based upon the _Histoires_
of Musson.
=2. The Jesuits, 1650–1800.=--Books written by, and books concerning,
the Jesuits make a considerable group among the dogmatic and
controversial works in the Index. In 1659, Alexander VII issues a
decree condemning a treatise which had been issued anonymously, in
Paris, under the title, _Apologie pour les Casuistes contre les
calomnies des Jansénistes_. In 1689, Innocent XI condemns forty-five
propositions, cited from Jesuit works; and in 1690, he issues a
decree against the Jesuit doctrine of philosophical sin. Of the books
written against the doctrines and the practices of the Order, the
most important are those by Mariana, Scotti, Pasquelin, and other
ex-Jesuits, by the Capucin, Valerianus Magni, by Arnauld (the elder),
Pasquier, and Scioppius. The great mass of Protestant writings against
the Order are hardly represented. Scotti, whose catalogue name is
Julius Clemens Scotus, had become a Jesuit in 1616. In 1664, he
abandoned the Order and later secured a chair in Padua as professor of
philosophy and of ecclesiastical law. The treatise which was condemned
in 1651, was issued under the title of _De potestate pontificia in
societatem Jesu ... ad Innocentium X, etc._ Scioppius comes into
the Index in connection with a volume entitled _Infamia Famiani_,
prohibited in 1687. The following treatises which were also his work
but which were published anonymously, were condemned in 1682: _Actio
perduellis in Jesuitas S. Rom. Imperii juratos hostes, Anatomia Soc._
_Jesu seu probatio spiritus Jesuitarum._ A third book in the list
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