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Banned and restricted books in Italy
24 titles have been banned or restricted in Italy, recorded across 24 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
24
Ban events
24
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
9
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1774 | 1 |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Carlo Levi | 1945 | 1 |
| The Moon and the Bonfires | Cesare Pavese | 1950 | 1 |
| Fontamara | Ignazio Silone | 1933 | 1 |
| Conversations in Sicily | Elio Vittorini | 1941 | 1 |
| Agostino | Alberto Moravia | 1944 | 1 |
| Ragazzi di vita | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1955 | 1 |
| Ars Amatoria | Ovid | -2 | 1 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | 1 |
| Bread and Wine | Ignazio Silone | 1936 | 1 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | 1 |
| Hubert Selby Jr.: Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr. | 1964 | 1 |
| Little Egg | Francesca Pardi | — | 1 |
| Little Blue and Little Yellow | Leo Lionni | 1959 | 1 |
| Tecnica del colpo di Stato | Curzio Malaparte | 1931 | 1 |
| La mascherata | Alberto Moravia | 1941 | 1 |
| Le ambizioni sbagliate | Alberto Moravia | 1935 | 1 |
| Tre operai | Carlo Bernari | 1934 | 1 |
| Il garofano rosso | Elio Vittorini | 1948 | 1 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | 1 |
| Porci con le ali | Lidia Ravera, Marco Lombardo Radice | 1976 | 1 |
| Altri libertini | Pier Vittorio Tondelli | 1980 | 1 |
| Jean a deux mamans | Ophélie Texier | 2004 | 1 |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell | 2005 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 10
- Immorality
- 8
- Sexual content
- 5
- Obscenity
- 3
- Race / colonialism
- 1
By decade
0s1
1770s1
1920s1
1930s7
1940s5
1950s2
1970s1
1980s1
2010s4
Documented bans
All 24 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Little Egg2015
Little Blue and Little Yellow2015
Altri libertini1980
Porci con le ali1976
Ragazzi di vita1955
The Moon and the Bonfires1950
Lady Chatterley's Lover1947
Christ Stopped at Eboli1945
Agostino1944
Conversations in Sicily1941
La mascherata1941
Le ambizioni sbagliate1938
Bread and Wine1936
Tre operai1934
Il garofano rosso1934
Fontamara1933
Tecnica del colpo di Stato1931
All Quiet on the Western Front1930–1945
A Farewell to Arms1929
The Sorrows of Young Werther1775
Ars Amatoria8
Hubert Selby Jr.: Last Exit to Brooklyn—
Jean a deux mamans2015
And Tango Makes Three2015
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