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The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605
By (Author) Paul F. Grendler
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
274.531
Hardback
400
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
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 enforc