Gabrielle M. Hamelin

The “Bibbia volgare” in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice: Censorship, Diffusion, and Readers

This article explores how daily access to Biblical texts in the vernacular was configured in Venice following the promulgation of the Clementine Index in 1596. While previous research on the faithful’s relationship to Holy Scripture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has largely focused on texts and their auth...