Patrizia Delpiano - Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment

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Originally published in Italian as Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nellItalia del Settecento, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Delpiano, Patrizia, author.

Title: Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy : Governing

Reading in the Age of Enlightenment / by Patrizia Delpiano.

Other titles: Governo della lettura. English

Description: New York: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge

research in early modern history | Originally published in

Italian as Il governo della lettura Chiesa e libri nellItalia del

Settecento, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007Title page verso. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017028289 (print) | LCCN 2017028726 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781315141862 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138306639 (alkaline paper)

Subjects: LCSH: CensorshipItalyHistory18th century. |

CensorshipItalyReligious aspectsHistory18th century. |

Books and readingSocial aspectsItalyHistory18th century. |

Books and readingItalyReligious aspectsHistory

18th century. | Catholic ChurchItalyHistory18th century. |

Prohibited booksItalyHistory18th century. | Church and

stateItalyHistory18th century. | ItalyReligion

18th century. | ItalyPolitics and government18th century.

Classification: LCC Z658.I8 (ebook) | LCC Z658.I8 D4513 2018

(print) | DDC 025.2/130945dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028289

ISBN: 978-1-138-30663-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-14186-2 (ebk)

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