The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum

The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum

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Starting from the case of the best-known manual of demonology published in the modern age, the Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Krmer and Joakob Sprenger published for the first time in Strasbourg between 1486 and 1487, the paper Oven studies the presence of the main treatises and works on demonology in the libraries of Italian religious orders between the Pièce Détachée end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the following century.The RICI (Research on the Inquiry of the Congregation of the Index) database is examined as a privileged source, which contains the lists of books sent to the Congregation of the Index on the occasion of the inquiry promoted by the Holy See.