Note 1436 — Chapter IV · CENSORSHIP. (continued 2)

Ibidem, Inq., Lib. 20, fol. 255.

My copy of the Tractatus illustrates a method of satisfying the conscience in possessing prohibited books, at least in Italy. It is of the fourth edition, Lyons, 1669, and a former owner, the Dottore Benedetto Gargdoni, has written on the fly-leaf, over his name, “Animo obtinendi licentiam.”