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1559: For hundreds of years, the Roman Catholic Church listed books that were prohibited to its members; but in this year, Pope Paul IV established the .For more than 400 years this was the definitive list of books that Roman Catholics were told not to read.In these years, he instigated great “bonfires of the vanities” which destroyed books and paintings by some of the greatest artists of Florence.
1720: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was placed on the Index Librorum by the Spanish Catholic Church.
1885: A year after the publication of Mark Twain’s , the library of Concord, Massachusetts, decided to exclude the book from its collection.
The committee making the decision said the book was “rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people.” By 1907, it was said that Twain’s novel had been thrown out of some library somewhere every year, mostly because its hero was said to present a bad example for impressionable young readers. Four years later another translation, by Sir Richard Burton, was allowed into the country, but the ban on the Mardrus version was maintained.
Ironically, in May of 1498 another great bonfire was lit — this time under Savonarola who hung from a cross.
With him were burned all his writings, sermons, essays, and pamphlets.
Two hundred years later an American sociologist, David Phillips, wrote about the effect of reporting suicides in was banned from the stage until 1820 — in deference to the insanity of the reigning monarch, King George III. Thomas Bowdler quietly brought out the first of his revised editions of Shakespeare’s plays.