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Lecturers/Professors:	SANGALLI Maurizio
Educational activities:	Modern History
Academic discipline:	HIST-02/A
Teaching hours:	36
Course hours:	36
Credits:	6
Teaching period:	2° semestre
Course Title: Course content:	Fundamental lines of the history of the Roman Church and of the history of the spreading of printing in the early modern era; the foundation of the Congregation of the Holy Inquisition and its role; the Indexes of the prohibited books and their role in controlling the book production; the foundation of the Congregation of the Index and its role; the role of the two cardinal congregations within the societies of the ancient Italian states, controlling printing and reading.
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Course books:	Per studenti frequentanti G. Caravale, Libri pericolosi. Censura e cultura italiana in età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2022 G. Fragnito, Proibito capire. La Chiesa e il volgare nella prima età moderna, il Mulino, Bologna 2005 In più, per studenti non frequentanti V. Frajese, Nascita dell'Indice. La censura ecclesiastica dal Rinascimento alla Controriforma, Morcelliana, Brescia 2006
Teaching Methods:	Frontal lectures, with the use of maps, graphs and images useful for a better understanding of the topics addressed and with the reading of sources and texts. Attendance is strongly recommended.
Learning Objectives:	The student will be helped to know the crucial moments of the history of the activity of the Congregration of the Indice and that of the Holy Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church, during the Early Modern Era. He/She will have to be able to outline, through the clarification of some cornerstones of the history and the activity of those two Roman congregations, the institutional, economical, social and religious panoramas of early modern Italy, having the possibility to distinguish between sources and bibliography. He/She will be asked to assess how and to which extent the crucial phases of the early modern religious Italian history have been the result of a complex intertwining of cultural, economical, religious and social phenomena, and this through the learning of a specific vocabulary which is suitable to examine the key events of the early-modern periods, giving the temporal and geographical coordinates. He/She will be helped to understand the different phases of the evolution of the inquisitorial and censorship history, related to the general history of the Italian peninsula between XVIth and XIXth centuries, and to assess how and to which extent the activity of the inquisitorial and censorial institutions have affected the socio-political and religious Italian life.
Expected Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods:	oral exam
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