“Heresy and Error”:
The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800


An Exhibition at Bridwell Library, September 20 – December 17, 2010

SAVONAROLA’S PROHIBITED SERMONS


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. Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498). Prediche del reverendo padre fra Gieronimo da Ferrara per tutto l’anno. Venice: Giovanni Antonio di Volpini, 1540.

In Bridwell Library’s copy of Savonarola’s sermons on the Books of Ruth and Micah, Sermon 7 on the third chapter of Ruth was censored by the removal of twelve leaves (folios 82-93). Only the beginning and the very end of the sermon remain.

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