The paper deals with Carniolian reception of books, banned in 16th, 17th and 18th centuries by the Roman Index librorum prohibitorum and by the Viennese Catalogus librorum prohibitorum. The research is based particularly on the large collection of prohibited books of various origins in the Seminary Library in Ljubljana – former capital city of the Duchy of Carniola. In the second half of 16th century the Carniolians (either Catholic or Protestant) were mainly interested in controversial religious books, published in Protestant north. The distribution of such prints was facilitated by balance of power between Catholic prince and Protestant States that postponed the introduction of the Roman Index. Its power culminated as late as in 1600 and 1601, when special state commission reestablished Catholicism in cities and towns and therefore occasionally burned controversial theological books (e.g. of Luther, Melanchthon, and Spangenberg), placed on the Index. But even then lots of Protestant biblical translations and commentaries (e.g. of Pellican, d’Étaples, and Dalmatin) and lots of scholarly (e.g. of Sleidanus, Hotman, and Wildenberg) and literary works (e.g. of Erasmus, Frischlin, and Hess) were spared the destruction. Immediately after that, all the libraries (especially library of the Jesuits in Ljubljana and bishop’s library in Gornji Grad) started to collect – among others – banned books. In the second half of the 17th century and in 18th century the influence of the Index was growing weak. The influx of prohibited books increased after the end of the Thirty Years’ War, i.e. after political and religious stabilization of Europe. The books were coming from great printing and bookselling centers of Catholic (Venice, Lyon, and Paris) and Protestant Europe (Frankfurt, Köln, Amsterdam, and Basel). Many of them were written by Gallican writers (e.g. Maimbourg, de Thou, and Roussel). A share of politically (e.g. Machiavelli, Boccalini, Sarpi) and morally controversial authors (Boccaccio, Pallavicino, Descartes, and Folengo) was growing.
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The paper deals with the motif of a castle in Slovenian literature in »long« 19th century: from the first volume of »Musenalmanach« Pisanice (1779) to the novel Visoška kronika (The Chronicle of Visoko, 1919). A review starts at the end of Baroque, takes into consideration especially works of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism and ends before the Modernism. It defines five different ways, in which Slovenian writers and poets used the motif in their works: castle as a contemporary scene, historical scene, object of criticism, national motif and literary symbol. It is shown that the image of a castle was powerfully determined especially by historicism, popular tradition, liberalism, and nationalism.
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