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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

TitleAuthorYearEvents
De MonarchiaDante Alighieri13132
The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir19491
Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre19431
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo18621
The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau17621
De Revolutionibus Orbium CoelestiumNicolaus Copernicus15431
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World SystemsGalileo Galilei16321
Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes16411
Discourse on MethodRené Descartes16371
PenséesBlaise Pascal16701
LeviathanThomas Hobbes16511
Two Treatises of GovernmentJohn Locke16891
The Spirit of the LawsMontesquieu17481
Emile, or On EducationJean-Jacques Rousseau17621
Pamela, or Virtue RewardedSamuel Richardson17401
Tom JonesHenry Fielding17491
The Last Temptation of ChristNikos Kazantzakis19551
The Red and the BlackStendhal18301
AgostinoAlberto Moravia19441
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli15321
Theologico-Political TreatiseBaruch Spinoza16701
EncyclopédieDenis Diderot17511
Philosophical DictionaryVoltaire17641
The System of NatureBaron d'Holbach17701
CandideVoltaire17591
The MonkMatthew Lewis17961
The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio13531
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondoGalileo Galilei16321
Meditationes de prima philosophiaRené Descartes16411
Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrataBaruch Spinoza16771

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
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Notre Dame de Paris1959
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Second Sex1956
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political content, Religious / blasphemysource →
The Mandarins1956
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Last Temptation of Christ1954
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Agostino1952
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource →
André Gide — All works1952
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Alberto Moravia — All works1952
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Jean-Paul Sartre — All works1948
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Afred Loisy — All works1938
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1934) On the Dark Men of Our Times1934
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Het volkomen huwelijk1931
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Anatole France — All works1922
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience1914
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Matière et mémoire; essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit1914
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
L'évolution créatrice1914
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Maurice Maeterlinck — All works1914
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Annales de philosophie chrétienne1913
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Histoire ancienne de l'Eglise1912
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Gabriele D'Annunzio — All plays1911
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Gabriele D'Annunzio — All love stories1911
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Zola — All works1894
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science1876
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1866–76)1873
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Thérèse Raquin1868–1966
Bannedchurch· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource →
Cours de philosophie positive1864
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Salammbô1864
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
La question du divorce1863
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Principles of Political Economy1856
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — All works1852
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Vincenzo Gioberti — All works1849
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Red and the Black1841
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Religious / blasphemysource →
La Comédie humaine1841–1966
Bannedchurch· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource →
Reisebilder1836
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
De l'Allemagne1836
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
De la France1836
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1617–21)1835
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Deontology, or The science of morality1835
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Astronomia nova1835
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Harmonices Mundi1835
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame1834–1966
Bannedchurch· historical· Immorality, Religious / blasphemysource →
Mémoires1834
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Kritik der reinen Vernunft1827–1966
Bannedchurch· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind1827
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; revised 1787)1827
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
The Monk1819
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemy, Sexual contentsource →
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy1819
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life1817
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Corinne ou l'Italie1807
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
Juliette1797
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource →
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