The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Indexâ14

Hannah Marcus

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Girolamo Rossi (1539-1607) was a historian, physician, and prolific censor for the Catholic Church. This article examines Rossiâs manuscripts in Ravenna and the Vatican to explore how a physician contributed to the expurgation efforts of the Congregation of the Index in the years following the publication of the Clementine Index (1596). I argue that participating in these censorship efforts trained physicians and other lay experts to read like censors, repurposing the humanist tools of reading, excerpting, and note taking to accomplish the censorship goals of the Counter-Reformation Church.

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Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World

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Print Publication Date:: 04 Mar 2019

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