Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

by Hannah Marcus

Book Overview

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022673658X
• ISBN13: 9780226736587
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"