1559 - Literature

Literature

The Index auctorum et librorum qui tanquam haeretici aut suspecti aut perverse ab Officio S. R. Inquisitionis reprobantur et in universa Christiana republica interdicuntur published by Pope Paul IV before his death condemns certain authors with all their writings, prohibits certain books whose authors are known, and prohibits pernicious books published anonymously. It is the first Roman Index in the modern ecclesiastical use of the term (see 1543).

Printer-scholar Robert Etienne dies at Geneva September 7 at age 56. Opposition from theologians at the Sorbonne forced him to leave Paris 8 years ago, and he printed a Greek New Testament that year at Geneva, dividing the text into verses for the first time. His Paris-born son Henri, 31, takes over the Geneva press and will be a scholar in his own right (see 1566).