Note 661 — Chapter VIII · INTELLECT AND FAITH. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Concil. Lateran. V. Sess. IX. (Harduin. IX. 1779-81).
These rules were probably enforced only where there was an Inquisition in working order. In the edition of Nifo’s work, De Cœlo et Mundo, printed at Naples in 1517, there is an imprimatur by Antonio Caietano, prior of the Dominican convent, reciting the conciliar decree, and stating that in the absence of the inquisitor he had been deputed by the Vicar of Naples to examine the work, in which he found no evil.
In the Venice editions of Joachim of Flora, printed in 1516 and 1517, there is not only the permission of the inquisitor and of the Patriarch of Venice, but also that of the Council of Ten, showing that the press was subjected to no little impediment.
In the contemporaneous Lyons edition of Alvaro Pelayo’s De Planctu Ecclesiœ (1517), however, there is no imprimatur, and evidently there was no censorship, and the same is the case in such German books of the period as I have had an opportunity of examining.