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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.
Titles
119
Ban events
120
Top reason
Religious / blasphemy
Decades active
36
Most-restricted titles
Stated reasons
- Religious / blasphemy
- 115
- Political content
- 12
- Immorality
- 7
- Sexual content
- 7
By decade
1320s1
1550s3
1580s1
1600s1
1610s1
1620s4
1630s1
1640s2
1650s3
1660s7
1670s3
1680s3
1690s2
1700s3
1710s1
1720s1
1730s3
1740s4
1750s10
1760s9
1780s2
1790s2
1800s1
1810s3
1820s3
1830s9
1840s3
1850s2
1860s4
1870s2
1890s1
1910s8
1920s1
1930s3
1940s1
1950s8
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 Nothingness1959
Notre Dame de Paris1959
The Second Sex1956
The Mandarins1956
The Last Temptation of Christ1954
Agostino1952
André Gide — All works1952
Alberto Moravia — All works1952
Jean-Paul Sartre — All works1948
Afred Loisy — All works1938
The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1934) On the Dark Men of Our Times1934
Het volkomen huwelijk1931
Anatole France — All works1922
Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience1914
Matière et mémoire; essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit1914
L'évolution créatrice1914
Maurice Maeterlinck — All works1914
Annales de philosophie chrétienne1913
Histoire ancienne de l'Eglise1912
Gabriele D'Annunzio — All plays1911
Gabriele D'Annunzio — All love stories1911
Zola — All works1894
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science1876
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1866–76)1873
Thérèse Raquin1868–1966
Cours de philosophie positive1864
Salammbô1864
La question du divorce1863
Principles of Political Economy1856
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — All works1852
Vincenzo Gioberti — All works1849
The Red and the Black1841
La Comédie humaine1841–1966
Reisebilder1836
De l'Allemagne1836
De la France1836
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1617–21)1835
Deontology, or The science of morality1835
Astronomia nova1835
Harmonices Mundi1835
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame1834–1966
Mémoires1834
Kritik der reinen Vernunft1827–1966
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind1827
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; revised 1787)1827
The Monk1819
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy1819
Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life1817
Corinne ou l'Italie1807
Juliette1797
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.