Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 837 pages of information about Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 837 pages of information about Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2.

INGEGNERI, Antonio, a friend of Tasso, ii. 64;
  publishes the Gerusalemme, 71.

INDEX Expurgatorius: 
  its first publication at Venice, i. 192;
  effects on the printing trade there, 193;
  the Index in concert with the Inquisition, 194;
  origin of the Index, 195;
  local lists of prohibited books, ib.;
  establishment of the Congregation of the Index, 197;
  Index of Clement VIII., 198;
  its preambles, ib.;
  regulations, 199 sq.;
  details of the censorship and correction of books, 201;
  rules as to printers, publishers, and booksellers, 203;
  responsibility of the Holy Office, 204;
  annoyances arising from delays and ignorance on the part of censors, 205;
  spiteful delators of charges of heresy, 207;
  extirpation of books, 208;
  proscribed literature, 209;
  garbled works by Vatican students, 210;
  effect of the Tridentine decree about the Vulgate, 212;
  influence of the Index on schools and lecture-rooms, 213;
  decline of humanism, 218;
  the statutes on the Ratio Status, 220;
  their object and effect, 221;
  the treatment of lewd and obscene publications, 223;
  expurgation of secular books, 224.

INQUISITION, the, i. 159 sqq.;
  the first germ of the Holy Office, 161;
  developed during the crusade against the Albigenses, ib.;
  S. Dominic its founder, 162;
  introduced into Lombardy, etc., 164;
  the stigma of heresy, 165;
  three types of Inquisition, 166;
  the number of victims, 166 n.;
  the crimes of which it took cognizance, 167;
  the methods of the Apostolical Holy Office, 168;
  treatment of the New Christians in Castile, 169, 171;
  origin of the Spanish Holy Office, 170;
  opposition of Queen Isabella, 171;
  exodus of New Christians, 172;
  the punishments inflicted, ib.;
  futile appeals to Rome, 173;
  constitution of the Inquisition, 174;
  its two most formidable features, 175;
  method of its judicial proceedings, 176;
  the sentence and its execution, 177;
  the holocausts and their pageant, ib.;
  Torquemada’s insolence, 179;
  the body-guard of the Grand Inquisitor, 180;
  number of Torquemada’s victims, 181;
  exodus of Moors from Castile, 182;
  victims under Torquemada’s successors, ib.;
  an Aceldama at Madrid, 184;
  the Roman Holy Office, ib.;
  remodelled by Giov.  Paolo Caraffa, 185;
  ‘Acts of Faith’ in Rome, 186;
  numbers of the victims, 187;
  in other parts of Italy, 188;
  the Venetian Holy Office, 190;
  dependent on
  the State, ib.;
  Tasso’s dread of the Inquisition, ii. 42, 45, 49, 51;
  the case of Giordano Bruno, 134, 157 sqq.;
  Sarpi denounced to the Holy Office, 195.

INTELLECTUAL and social activity in Italian cities, i. 51.

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