Publication Date

2024

Document Type

Book

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The censorship of books during the Renaissance had been done due to the lack of support from the religion being practiced. Despite a text being fictional, it was deemed to be wrong towards catholicism, making it forbidden to be read. When comparing the book from special collections, the one which was made during the Renaissance was censored the most, helping compare the reason behind the censorship. In “Orlando Furioso,” there are many censored lines of text that are due to the mention of angels or fantasy. Due to this book being from Italy, the text was taken more seriously to be censored because of how public it was and how popular the poems were. This also included the images that were paired with each poem. There were differences when comparing an English version of the text to the one in Italian.

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“Orlando Furioso”: the Poems that Needed to be Censored

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