Poetry and censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy / / by Jennifer Helm.

In Poetry and Censorship Jennifer Helm offers insight into motives and strategies of Counter-Reformation censorship of poetry in Italy. Materials of Roman censorial authorities reveal why the control of poetry and of its reception was crucial to Counter-Reformation cultural politics. Censorship of p...

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Superior document:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 189
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 189.
Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Control of Literature as a Strategy of Catholic Reformation: Motives and Modes of Influence
  • 2 Approaching Censorial Reading
  • 3 Mechanisms of the Roman Index
  • 4 Censures of the Marvelous
  • 5 Censures of Love
  • 6 Censoring Laughter
  • 7 Self-Censorship and Poetic Counter-Strategies: The Case of Domenico Venier
  • Conclusion
  • Editorial Notes
  • Documents 1: Cases and Judgments
  • Documents 2: Relating Documents
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.