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


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

CENSORSHIP IN MEXICO


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. [Tribunal of the Inquisition in Mexico]. Nos los inquisidores apostolicos contra la heretica pravedad y apostasía, en la ciudad de México, estados y provincias de esta Nueva España, Goatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Filipinas, sus distritos y jurisdicciones... Hacemos saber, que á nuestra noticia ha llegado haberse escrito, impreso, ó divulgado varios libros, tratados, y papeles, que pueden ocasionar la ruina espiritual de vuestras almas, los quales mandamos prohibir, ô expurgar respectivamente, como aqui se expresa, y son los siguientes. [Mexico: s.n., 1804].

In this proclamation, the Mexican Inquisition lists twenty-one titles that may not be read without license to do so, forty books that are prohibited, and thirteen more texts that require expurgation. Among the expurgated books, No. 2 is St. Alfonso María de Ligorio’s Theologia moralis. The broadside mandates that in volume II, book 6, tract 3, chapter 2, problem 2, article 1, question 1, section 257, the entire passage beginning “Sed hoc non obstante” and ending “Sententiam esse valde probabilem” must be deleted.


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