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Banned and restricted books in Vatican City (Holy See) 119 titles have been banned or restricted in Vatican City (Holy See), recorded across 120 dated, source-cited events, most often for religious / blasphemy.
Top reason
Religious / blasphemy
Stated reasons
Religious / blasphemy 115
Political content 12
Immorality 7
Sexual content 7 By decade 1320s 1
1550s 3
1580s 1
1600s 1
1610s 1
1620s 4
1630s 1
1640s 2
1650s 3
1660s 7
1670s 3
1680s 3
1690s 2
1700s 3
1710s 1
1720s 1
1730s 3
1740s 4
1750s 10
1760s 9
1780s 2
1790s 2
1800s 1
1810s 3
1820s 3
1830s 9
1840s 3
1850s 2
1860s 4
1870s 2
1890s 1
1910s 8
1920s 1
1930s 3
1940s 1
1950s 8
Documented bans A sample of 50 of 120 recorded events, most severe and most recent first. Each links to its source where available.
Being and Nothingness 1959
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Notre Dame de Paris 1959
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Second Sex 1956
Banned government · historical · Political content, Religious / blasphemy source → The Mandarins 1956
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Last Temptation of Christ 1954
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Agostino 1952
Banned government · historical · Immorality, Sexual content source → André Gide — All works 1952
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Alberto Moravia — All works 1952
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Jean-Paul Sartre — All works 1948
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Afred Loisy — All works 1938
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1934) On the Dark Men of Our Times 1934
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Het volkomen huwelijk 1931
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Anatole France — All works 1922
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience 1914
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Matière et mémoire; essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit 1914
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → L'évolution créatrice 1914
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Maurice Maeterlinck — All works 1914
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Annales de philosophie chrétienne 1913
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Histoire ancienne de l'Eglise 1912
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Gabriele D'Annunzio — All plays 1911
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Gabriele D'Annunzio — All love stories 1911
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Zola — All works 1894
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1876
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1866–76) 1873
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Thérèse Raquin 1868–1966
Banned church · historical · Immorality, Sexual content source → Cours de philosophie positive 1864
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Salammbô 1864
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → La question du divorce 1863
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Principles of Political Economy 1856
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — All works 1852
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Vincenzo Gioberti — All works 1849
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Red and the Black 1841
Banned government · historical · Immorality, Religious / blasphemy source → La Comédie humaine 1841–1966
Banned church · historical · Immorality, Sexual content source → Reisebilder 1836
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → De l'Allemagne 1836
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → De la France 1836
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1617–21) 1835
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Deontology, or The science of morality 1835
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Astronomia nova 1835
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Harmonices Mundi 1835
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 1834–1966
Banned church · historical · Immorality, Religious / blasphemy source → Mémoires 1834
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Kritik der reinen Vernunft 1827–1966
Banned church · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind 1827
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Critique of Pure Reason (1781; revised 1787) 1827
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → The Monk 1819
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy, Sexual content source → A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1819
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life 1817
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Corinne ou l'Italie 1807
Banned government · historical · Religious / blasphemy source → Juliette 1797
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