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#BannedBooksWeek: 16th-Century Censorship
If you think banning books is solely a modern pastime, stop by Special Collections to take a look at this 1541 edition of Petrarch’s Canzoniere. The book was not banned in its entirety, but some sonnets were subject to censorship by the Catholic Church via the Index Expurgatorius. This index required the expurgation of selected sonnets from […]
michaelseminara
Sep 23, 20191 min read
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