The infection of ideas and the measures of restraint: the case of the 1841 inventory of the Convento dei Frati Cappuccini in Lugano
l’esempio dell’inventario del 1841 del Convento dei Frati Cappuccini di Lugano
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Authors
Type
Journal Article
Year
2023
Language
English
Abstract
The provincial archives of the Swiss Capuchins in Lucerne preserve the 1841
inventory, originally compiled by Cherubino da Ligornetto, guardian of the Capuchin
convent in Lugano, with interventions by Mr. Giacomo Beretta and Mr. Pasquale Lurati,
in compliance with the Law of the 19th of June 1803 and its subsequent resolutions. The
document includes information concerning the shelves of banned books in the Library
of the Capuchin Convent, Lugano, known today as the Biblioteca Salita dei Frati. Unlike
the expurgated editions, which were shown during the guided tour of the Library on
the 29th of September 2022, these do not show deletions of text, but rather display some
handwritten annotations, such as the note "forbidden" placed on the front flyleaves.
This shows that, over the centuries, book censorship could take many a form.
Keywords
Salita dei Frati Library, Collections, Banned books, Archival collections
Journal
Altre Modernità
Volume
12
Pages (or article number)
127-141
Diffusion
License
CC BY-SA
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
