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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
UDC 271/279
821.163.6:284.1(497.4)
929 Vegerij P.P.:930.85'15'
Tomaž Jurca
To inquisitors across Italy – Vergerio’s polemic against the authors
of the Roman index of prohibited books issued in the year 1559 in the light
of condemnation of the classics of Italian literature, who »testified for the truth«
Pier Paolo Vergerio’s extensive production of pamphlets printed mainly in exile
includes a series of very interesting polemic reactions to Church indexes of prohibited
books. The most notable characteristic of these polemic pamphlets, which could be de-
fined as literary works, are the so-called counter-indexes, lists of books not included in
the original Church indexes with which Vergerio tried to influence the censors and also
readers in Italy. The purpose of these counter-indexes is not to denounce his brothers
in faith, since their function is primarily polemic and psychological. They are mainly an
intelligent instrument of a skilled speaker bound to his mission, with which the Protestant
propaganda achieves new dimensions. From 1549 Vergerio published eight interventions
against indexes of prohibited books and among these the most interesting is probably
the last one, regarding the index of Rome, issued in the year 1559. This pamphlet also
includes a record of Primož Trubar and the Slovene translation of The New Testament,
which, along with other important translations of the Bible, also found its way onto
Vergerio’s counter-index. In his struggle against censorship, Vergerio’s main weapons are
his well-informed and perceptive mind and, last but not least, the voices of the classics of
Italian literature, prohibited by the Church. Because of their testimony, Vergerio’s printed
word, which penetrated Northern Italy after 1549, achieves wider audiences and becomes
an important factor in the diffusion of the message of the Gospel in this territory.
UDC 521:22:2-1
Walter Sparn
Heavenly physics and earthly fate: cosmology as a challenge to theologies
after the Reformation
Protestant as well as Roman Catholic scholars (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton,
Leibniz, etc.) and church institutions were involved directly and indirectly in the “Coper-
nican revolution” of cosmology in the 16th and 17th centuries, which destroyed the then
current picture of the world with the Earth as a safe human habitation in the centre of
creation and God’s attention. The spatial hierarchy with the Earth below, the cosmic sky
above it, and the religious sky over both of them “up there” had collapsed. Regardless
of confessional differences, the explanation persisted for a long time that the Coperni-
can system was merely the better/best cosmological model for calculations, and not a
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UDC 271/279
821.163.6:284.1(497.4)
929 Vegerij P.P.:930.85'15'
Tomaž Jurca
To inquisitors across Italy – Vergerio’s polemic against the authors
of the Roman index of prohibited books issued in the year 1559 in the light
of condemnation of the classics of Italian literature, who »testified for the truth«
Pier Paolo Vergerio’s extensive production of pamphlets printed mainly in exile
includes a series of very interesting polemic reactions to Church indexes of prohibited
books. The most notable characteristic of these polemic pamphlets, which could be de-
fined as literary works, are the so-called counter-indexes, lists of books not included in
the original Church indexes with which Vergerio tried to influence the censors and also
readers in Italy. The purpose of these counter-indexes is not to denounce his brothers
in faith, since their function is primarily polemic and psychological. They are mainly an
intelligent instrument of a skilled speaker bound to his mission, with which the Protestant
propaganda achieves new dimensions. From 1549 Vergerio published eight interventions
against indexes of prohibited books and among these the most interesting is probably
the last one, regarding the index of Rome, issued in the year 1559. This pamphlet also
includes a record of Primož Trubar and the Slovene translation of The New Testament,
which, along with other important translations of the Bible, also found its way onto
Vergerio’s counter-index. In his struggle against censorship, Vergerio’s main weapons are
his well-informed and perceptive mind and, last but not least, the voices of the classics of
Italian literature, prohibited by the Church. Because of their testimony, Vergerio’s printed
word, which penetrated Northern Italy after 1549, achieves wider audiences and becomes
an important factor in the diffusion of the message of the Gospel in this territory.
UDC 521:22:2-1
Walter Sparn
Heavenly physics and earthly fate: cosmology as a challenge to theologies
after the Reformation
Protestant as well as Roman Catholic scholars (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton,
Leibniz, etc.) and church institutions were involved directly and indirectly in the “Coper-
nican revolution” of cosmology in the 16th and 17th centuries, which destroyed the then
current picture of the world with the Earth as a safe human habitation in the centre of
creation and God’s attention. The spatial hierarchy with the Earth below, the cosmic sky
above it, and the religious sky over both of them “up there” had collapsed. Regardless
of confessional differences, the explanation persisted for a long time that the Coperni-
can system was merely the better/best cosmological model for calculations, and not a
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