The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400–1800
An Exhibition at Bridwell Library, September 20 – December 17, 2010
CENSORSHIP
IN MEXICO
60.
St. Alfonso María de Ligorio (1696–1787).
Theologia moralis. Vol. 2 of 2.
Venice: Bassani, for Remondini, 1785.
In Bridwell Library’s copy of
the 1785 Venetian edition of St. Alfonso María de
Ligorio’s work, the passage condemned by the Mexican
Inquisition in 1804 has been thoroughly deleted in
ink. As the broadside explained, the passage
questions the necessity of confession before
communion and therefore must be expurgated “por ser
peligrosa en la práctica” (“because it is dangerous
in practice”).
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