The banned list of books of the Vatican

The first edition of this banned list of books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) was published in Rome in 1559. The Pope personally oversaw its creation, but the Index was then handed over to the Inquisition. The first known literary work destroyed by the clergy was the poem “Waist” by the heresy Arius, burned by the Council of Nicaea in 325. In 405, Pope Innocent I compiled the first list of heretical writings to be destroyed.

Gradually, under the influence of the Vatican in Spain, France and other European countries, people who printed banned books were excommunicated from the church and then imprisoned and burned. in 1660–1756 869 authors, printers, publishers and booksellers were imprisoned in the Bastille. Censorship had spread throughout the Catholic world.

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With the publication of the first banned list of books

in 1559, the censorship of all books published in Catholic countries was concentrated in the hands of the papal inquisition. Paul IV generally forbade the printing of any books in papal possessions without prior censorship by the Inquisition. He ordered booksellers to inform the Inquisition of all new products they received and forbade them to be traded without special permission from the “holy” court. The inquisitors periodically inspected not only bookstores but also private libraries. The books seized from them were solemnly burned in a public auto-da-fe.

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