Los libros vernáculos en el índice expurgatorio de Bernardo de Sandoval (1612-1628).

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is a study of expurgatory policy in the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy (basically Spain and Portugal) between 1581 and 1612, focusing specifically on expurgation of works in the vernacular.A study of the Indexes of Expurgated books by Jorge de Almeida (Portugal, 1581), the Inquisitor general Gaspar de Quiroga (Spain, 1584), together with those of Bernardo de Sandoval (Spain, 1612) and Fernão Martins Mascarenhas (Portugal, 1624) enabled me to evaluate and chronicle the shaping and consolidation of Iberian expurgatory policy during the transition from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, and to provide an overview of the expurgation of Renaissance and Golden Age works of poetry and fiction. The thesis also includes (A) a catalogue raisonn\u00E9 of works of entertainment in the Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese vernacular that the Indexes of the Spanish Inquisition of Gaspar de Quiroga (1584) and Bernardo de Sandoval (1612-1628) expurgated, as well as (B) a detailed analysis of how expurgation worked in a selection of outstanding cases of canonical authors. The catalogue of works in the vernacular provides an overview of the set of genres, topics and authors that were most heavily expurgated. It brings together the complete editorial history of the text from the princeps edition until the work was added to the prohibitory or expurgatory Indexes, as well as a comparative history of prohibitions or censorial interventions on each title in Italy and Portugal. The catalogue of my doctoral thesis focuses on the expurgatory Indexes (not the prohibitory ones) of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Apart from the catalogue, expurgated passages have been edited (transcribed and modernized) and analysed, with specific commentaries on the content and heterodox nature of mutilated or crossed out parts. It includes, therefore, an entire edition of passages removed and an extensive image database. The images illustrate in explicit detail the multiple forms of censorial intervention on the exemplars (crossings-out, mutilations, paper patches, rewritings, etc.) and demonstrate the extent of the purging and the damage that could be done to books already printed after the corrections. The main work of cataloguing is complemented by case studies that enhance knowledge of the reception and circulation of literary texts in early modern Europe and the way the censorship institutions worked. Those selected include the great Italian authors that were disseminated and translated in Spain (Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Petrarch’s Canzoniere, Dante’s Divina Commedia). The case analysis is a crucial part of the thesis because it makes it possible to analyse passages that were crossed out and eliminated from the text and to trace exactly and in detail the way that expurgation worked in the Iberian context, in comparison with other cultural environments in Counter-Reformation Europe, especially Italy. In short, it reveals (a) the way in which the Iberian Inquisitions, the Tridentine Index of Prohibited Books, the Roman Congregazione dell’Indice and the Master of the Sacred Palace were interrelated, and followed or contradicted each other; (b) the unequal impact of the universal Roman Indexes in Spain and Portugal (at a formal or structural level and in terms of content) after the Council of Trent Index (1564); and (c) the expurgatory criteria adopted by each of the Inquisitions with literature of entertainment, showing to what end and in whose interests literary texts in the vernacular were mutilated.

Date of Award	13 Sept 2019
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Maria Jose Vega Ramos (Director)