Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Delpiano Patrizia;

Author:Delpiano, Patrizia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

But, on account of his impenitence, the trial against Pinzi had been something else entirely. The case even brought about new inquisitorial measures and provided a justification for the Inquisition’s edict about the circulation of books, published in 1773 and born of a specific conviction:

Irreligion, and immorality, which have expanded so much in our times, draw their main life-source from the reading of impious books, which ruins the intellect, and corrupts the heart of those wretched people who, either incautiously or with evil intent, drink their eternal damnation from these muddy springs of iniquity.59

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