Forbidden Knowledge

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Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy by Hannah Marcus  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? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early modern physicians evaluated the utility of banned books and facilitated their continued circulation in conversation with Catholic authorities.

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Marcus, Hannah. 2020. Forbidden Knowledge : Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marcus, Hannah. 2016. “Bibliography and Book Bureaucracy: Reading Licenses and the Circulation of Prohibited Books in Counter-Reformation Italy.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110 (4): 433–57.