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The first consistent attempt to set up an institutional press in Rome for
religious and cultural purposes was made by Cardinal Marcello Cervini. Between
1541 and 1544, he established, with Paul III’s tacit approval, both a Greek and a
Latin press to publish sacred works from manuscripts of the Vatican Library. Part I
of this dissertation treats this project in detail. Here, it is worth mentioning that it
was mainly aimed at providing members of Catholic religious orders with new tools
to challenge Reformed scholarship in the fields of patristics and history. While
Cervini’s presses were in full activity, the appeasement policy with German
Protestantism came to an end with the failure of the Diet of Regensburg in 1541. As
a result, the papacy took a tougher stance on the Reformation, summoning the
ecumenical (but, in effect, Catholic) council in Trent and creating a permanent
congregation of cardinals to deal with heresy: the Roman Inquisition or the Holy
Office. If this attempt to convoke the Council of Trent fell through, the Inquisition
rapidly proved its efficacy by moving against many illustrious figures from Italian
heterodox circles. Among the duties of this new body was to control book
circulation as a vehicle for the spread of heretical ideas. For the dioceses of Rome,
this role overlapped with the jurisdiction of the Master of the Sacred Palace, who, in
his capacity as official theologian of the pope, was in charge of a rather ineffective
system of giving preliminary approval – imprimatur – to works which were to be
published in the city. As far as can be determined from the scarce documentation
which survives, the Inquisition immediately focused not only on local printers and
publishers but also on Roman booksellers and audience. According to a decree of 12
June 1543, all the city’s book shops were to be thoroughly investigated in search of
Protestants publications, lists of the volumes on sale were to be submitted for
approval and no one was permitted to read or listen to forbidden publications, nor to
speak, teach or preach about them, under threat of substantial fines, withdrawal of
trade licences and, in some cases, perpetual exile.
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