Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy
by
Giorgio Caravale
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, to purge various devotional texts in the Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements, while imposing a rigid uniformity in...