Note 727 — Chapter VI

The original Index of Pope Paul IV. contained a list of no less than sixty-one printers, and prohibited the reading of any book printed by them. He afterwards withdrew this clause. But his Index gives a long catalogue of authors all of whose writings are prohibited. It is, with one distinguished exception, a mere list of names; but it contains: “Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus cum universis commentariis, annotationibus, scholiis, dialogis, epistolis, censuris, versionibus, libris et scriptis suis, etiam si nil penitus contra religionem vel de religione contineant.”