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
Appendices issued in 1763, 1770, and 1779 were printed in the
printing-office of the Holy See. A number of the better printed
editions which, according to the title-page, were the work of this
office, were, as Reusch points out, actually printed in places other
than Rome. Certain of these have been identified with the typography of
offices in Parma, Venice, and Florence. The Index issued in 1786 was
continued with five appendices; and, in 1806, was reprinted with the
six lists in one alphabet. The first Roman Index of the 19th century
was issued in 1819, with an introduction from Alex. Aug. Bardani. The
second Index of the century was published under Gregory XVI in 1835,
and the third under the same Pope in 1841. Both issues contained
prefaces by Thomas Ant. Degola. These three Indexes were reprinted in a
number of impressions, and the practice had now obtained of recording
correctly the place of issue. Italian issues, printed with the papal
privilege, were published at Monza, Monreale (in Sicily), and Naples;
and an edition printed in Mechlin also carries a papal privilege.
Editions for which no such privilege was secured appeared in Paris and
in Brussels. Under Pius IX, were published two editions of the Index,
one in 1865 and the second in 1877. Under Leo XIII, were also published
two, one in 1881 and the second in 1900 (the preface bears date 1899).
This latter is at the present date (January, 1907) the latest issue in
the papal series. It is described in detail in Chapter XI. These two
Indexes contain each an introduction by the same editor, Hieronymus
Pius Saccheri. The second Index of Leo represents a higher standard
of bookmaking than had been reached by any previous Index either
papal or Spanish. The lists are remarkably free from bibliographical
or typographical errors and the printed page is not only readable
but artistic. The previous issues of the 19th century, and those of
the 18th and 17th, present but very little advance in the matter of
consistent and uniform bibliography or in freedom from misprints.
According to the routine obtaining after the accession of Benedict, all
the more important of the changes which took shape in the successive
Indexes were decided upon in sessions of the Congregation at which
the Pope himself presided. Such was the case, for instance, with the
elimination of the general prohibition of the Copernican writings, with
the cancellation of the series of entries connected with the issues
between Paul V and Venice, and with the recall of the prohibition of
the writings of Cardinal Noailles.
What may be called the editorial division (that is to say, the
introduction and official entries) in the Index of Benedict is repeated
without change in all the later Indexes through the 19th century.
In the Index of 1835, are added to this division two papers. The
first is a _mandatum_ of Leo XII, issued under a decree of the
Congregation of March 26, 1825, which reads in substance as follows:
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