The Saint As Censor: Robert Bellarmine Between Inquisition and Index (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought)

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This book uses hitherto secret sources of the Inquisition and Index to reconstruct the history of Roman censorship in its first, formative years from the standpoint of Galileo's judge. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a censor for the Index and a consultor to the Holy Office, before becoming cardinal-inquisitor and (three centuries after his death) a saint and Doctor of the Church. His career provides a paradigm of how an intellectual could make his way to the top in Counter-Reformation Rome. Censored by Pope Sixtus v, Bellarmine responded by suppressing the pontiff's version of the Vulgate and by repressing the Sistine Index of Prohibited Books. A new interpretation - including a revaluation of Galileo's first 'trial' - of Roman censorship is offered in this book. Based on unpublished sources from the archives, which it edits and interprets for the first time, The Saint as Censor will alter our understanding of the Roman Inquisition and the Index. Title Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Editorial Notes Part 1: The Censor and his World 1. THE DIALECTICS OF CENSORSHIP 2. THE ROLES OF THE CENSOR 3. THE CENSOR CENSORED 4. A KING PROSCRIBED 5. THE MIND OF THE CENSOR Part 2: Censura. Librorum et. Propositionum Bellarminiana 1-31 1. Indice, Protocolli B, fol. 405". 2. Indice, Protocolli B, fol. 296'. 3. Indice, Protocolli B, fol. 324^ ^ 4. Indice, Protocolli B, fol. 352'. 5. Indice, Protocolli B, fol. 384" 6. Indice, Protocolli H, fol. 319' 7. Indice, Protocolli H, fols. 479'-480'.. 8. Indice, Protocolli C, fols. 70", 71%, 72°. 9. Indice, Protocolli V, fol. 391'—394*. 10. BAV, Vat. lat. 6149, fols. 82'-83' 11. Indice, Protocolli K, fols. 35-36". 12. Indice, Protocolli K, fols. 79'-80'. 13. Indice, Protocolli K, fol. 78'. 14. (a.) Indice, Protocolli K, fol. 134" ". 14. (b.) Indice, Protocolli Z, fol. 517'. 15. Indice, Protocolli N fols. 402—403". 16. Indice, Protocolli C, fol. 7'. 17. Indice, Protocolli V, fols. 606'-609'. 17. (a) De Papirii Massoni libris, quos inscripsit “De vitis Episcoporum Urbis". 17. (b) De libris Papirii Massonii, quos “De vitis Pontificum Maximorum" scripsil. 18. Indice, Protocolli P, fols. 385' *; 19. Indice, Protocolli K, fols. 76'—77 20. Si. St. Ol-a Censurae in diversas propositiones ab anno. 1592 ad annum 1677, fasc. | (1592), title-page and fols. 629*, 634-635", 639', 640'. 21. Indice, Protocolli Z, fol. 48' and AA, fols. 308'-309*, 326" ". 22. SU. Censura. Librorum L, fasc. 19 (1608), fols. 705; 716' *; 717*. 23. S.U. Censura Librorum VL, fasc. 3. (1609), fol. 57'. 24. Indice, Protocolli AA, fols. 632" * 25. Indice, Protocolli S, fol. 250 *.. 26. ‘Indice, Protocolli CC, fol. 436" *. 27. Indice, Protocolli S, fol. 231". 28. Indice, Protocolli Y, fols. 305^", 310". 29. S.U. Censura librorum V, fasc. 13 (1620), fol. 606". 30. S.U. Censura librorum 1L, fasc. 10 (1617), fol. 546" ".. 31. S.U. Censura. librorum M, fasc. 14 (1621), fol. 615' *. Part 3: Documenta Appendix Postscriptum Index Codicum Index Nominum Index Locorum Index Rerum Backmatter