The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian press, 1540-1605 /Paul F. Grendler.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Venetian Bookmen. Publishers, printers, and sellers -- The size of the press -- Printing and selling -- Economic and social world of the bookmen -- The Inquisition. God, church, papacy, and republic -- Establishment of the Inquisition -- Operation of the Inquisition -- The Growth of Censorship. Renaissance attitudes toward censorship -- Early attempts at press censorship -- Edicts and indices of the 1540s -- The Catalogo of 1549 -- The burning of the Talmud in 1553 -- The index of 1554/55 -- Heretical books and bookmen -- The index of Paul IV -- The Counter Reformation Implemented. Inspection of the bookstores -- The quarrel over the reformed canonical texts -- The Clandestine Book Trade. The smuggling network -- The market for prohibited books -- Venice and Rome Part Company. Lay jurisdiction over public morality -- The Republic tightens its supervision of the Holy Office -- The Republic Protects the Press. Economic decline of the press -- The roles of the press -- Defending the press -- The Waning of the Index. Preparation of a new index -- The Clementine index -- Struggle over promulgation -- The concordat -- Declining censorship -- The Impact of Index and Inquisition on Italian Intellectual Life -- Appendix I: Documents -- Appendix II: Inventories of Prohibited Titles, c. 1555-1604.

One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian press by the Index of Prohibited Books and enforced by the Inquisition. Using Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Archive and Library, and the books themselves, Professor Grendler traces the controversies as the patriciate debated whether to enforce the Index or to support the disobedient members of the book trade. He investigates the practical consequences of the Index to printer and reader, noble and prelate. Heretics, clergymen, smugglers, nobles, and printers recognized the importance of the press and pursued their own goals for it. The Venetian leaders carefully weighed the conflicting interests, altering their stance to accommodate constantly shifting religious, political, and economic situations. The author shows how disputes over censorship and other press matters contributed to the tension between the papacy and the Republic. He draws on Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Library, and the books themselves.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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