Entries for the period 1500 -1799

• Puritan Theocracy in Colonial America

• John Peter Zenger, publisher

• Sedition Act, Ratification of the First Amendment

• Pietro Aretino's book Sonnetti Lussuriosi

• "Ars Amatoria" (The Art of Love), "Elegies"

• "The Bible"

• "La Divina Commedia", " De Monarchia"

• Licensing to print books in Europe

• "Pantagruel", "Gargentua"

• Machiavelli's, "Discorsi", "Il Principe"

• Martin Luther, "Works", "Address to the German Nobility"

• "Civil and Canonical Law"

• Thomas Paine, Religious Prohibition

• Michel de Montaigne, "Les Essaies"

• Reginald Scott; "A Discovery of Witchcraft"

• John Stubbs; "The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf... "

• Robert Parsons; "A Conference..."

• Index Librorum Prohibitorum

• Galilei Galileo, "Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi... "

• William Shakespeare is Bowdlerized

• Rene Descartes; "Les Meditations Methaphysiques"

• Moliere; "Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur"

• Blaise Pascal; "Lettres a un Provincial", "Pensées"

• Baron Charles Louis Montesquieu; Works of

• John Cleland; "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure... "

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau; works of

• Diderot; "L'Encyclopedie"

• Kant; "Critique of Pure Reason" and other works

• Beaumarchais, "Le Barbier de Seville", "Memoires", "Le Mariage de Figaro"

• The Lord Chamberlain, "The Licensing Act"

• Sade, "Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue", "Juliette"

• Goethe, "The Sorrows of Wertherr," "Faust"

• Miguel de Molinos - Author

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