Sources:
Various. N.B. The subject of Historical Inventions is subject to historical invention.
Works and Authors Banned by the Papal Index, 1559–1952: A Selection
1559 | Abelard Boccaccio Calvin Dante Erasmus | opera omnia II Decamerone opera omnia De Monarchia opera omnia |
1624 | Luther | German Bible |
1633 | Descartes | selected works |
1645 | Sir Thomas Browne Montaigne | Religio Medici Essais |
1700 | Locke | Essay on Human Understanding |
1703 | La Fontaine | Contes nouvelles |
1734 | Swift | Tale of a Tub |
1738 | Swedenborg | Principia |
1752 | Voltaire | Lettres philosophiques |
1755 | Richardson | Pamela |
1759 | Diderot | Encyclopédie |
1763 | Rousseau | Émile |
1766 | Rousseau | Du contrat social |
1783 | Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
1789 | Pascal | Lettres provinciales |
1791 | de Sade | Justine; Juliette |
1792 | Paine | Rights of Man |
1806 | Rousseau | La Nouvelle Héloïse |
1819 | Sterne | A Sentimental Journey |
1827 | Kant | Critique of Pure Reason |
1834 | Casanova Hugo | Mémoires Notre-Dame de Paris Les Misérables |
1836 | Heine | De l’Allemagne; Reisebilder |
1841 | Balzac | opera omnia |
1836 | Dumas | all romances |
1864 | Flaubert | Madame Bovary Salammbô |
1894 | Zola | opera omnia |
1911 | d’Annunzio | selected works |
1914 | Maeterlinck | opera omnia |
1922 | France | opera omnia |
1937 | Darwin | On the Origin of Species |
1939 | Stendhal | opera omnia |
1948 | Descartes | Méditations |
1952 | Gide | opera omnia |
Source
: N. Parsons,
The Book of Literary Lists
(London, 1985), 207–13; in turn from A. L. Haight, Banned Books (1955).
The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1584–1648
The Prussian Agglomeration, 1525–1871
Russia’s Expansion into Europe, 1552–1815
The Standard Repertoire of Grand Opera, 1609–1969
(Date of first performance in parentheses)
C. Monteverdi | Orfeo (1607); L’Incoronazione di Poppea (1642). |
J.-B. Lulli | Psyche (1671); Alceste (1674); Roland (1685). |
A. Scarlatti | Pirro e Demetrio (1694). H. Purcell Dido and Aeneas (1696). |
G. F. Handel | Agrippina (1709); Rinaldo (1709); Giulio Cesare (1724); Rodelinda (1725); Orlando (1733); Alcina (1735); Berenice (1737); Xerxes (1738); Semele (1744). |
J.-P. Rameau | Hippolyte et Aricie (1732); Les Indes galantes (1735); Castor et Pollux (1737). |
G. B. Pergolesi | La Serva Padrone (1733). |
W. C. Gluck | Orfeo et Eurydice (1767); Alceste (1767); Iphigenie en Aulide (1774). |
W. A. Mozart | Idomeneo (1781); II Seraglio (1782); Le Nozze de Figaro (1786); Don Giovanni (1787); Cosi fan tutte (1790); Die Zauberflöte (1791); Clemenza di Tito (1791). |
L. Cherubini | La Medée (1797). D. Cimerosa II Matrimonio Segreto (1792). |
L. van Beethoven | Fidelio (1814). |
G. Rossini | Italiana in Algeri (1813); The Barber of Seville (1816); La Cenerentola (1817); Gazza Ladra (1817); Semiramide (1823); Comte Ory (1828); William Tell (1829). |
C.-M. von Weber | Der Freischutz (1821); Oberon (1826). |
V. Bellini | La Sonnambula (1831); Norma (1831); I Puritani (1835). |
G. Donizetti | L’Elisit d’Amore (1832); Lucia di Lammermoor (1835); Don Pasquale (1843). |
H. Meyerbeer | Robert le Diable (1931); Les Huguenots (1836); L’Africaine (1864). |
M. Glinka | A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) (1836); Ruslan and Ludmila (1842). |
G. Verdi | Nabucco (1842); I Lombardi (1843); Macbeth (1847); Rigoletto (1851); II Trovatore (1853); La Traviata (1853); Simon Bocanegra (1857); Ballo in Maschera (1859); La Forza del Destino (1862); Don Carlos (1869); Aida (1869); Otello (1887); Falstaff (1893). |
R. Wagner | The Flying Dutchman (1843); Tannhäuser (1845); Lohengrin (1850); Tristan und Isolde (1865); Der Ring des Nibelungen—Das Rheingold (1869); Die Walküre (1870); Siegfried (1876); Gotterdämmerung (1876)— Die Meistersinger (1868); Parsifal (1882). |
H. Berlioz | Les Troyans (1855); Béatrice et Bénédict (1862). |
J. Offenbach | Orphée aux Enfers (1855); La Vie Parisienne (1866); Tales of Hoffmann (1881). |
C. Gounod | Faust (1859); Mireille (1864); Roméo et Juliette (1867). |
A. Thomas | Mignon (1866). G. Bizet The Pearl Fishers (1863); Carmen (1875). |
N. Rimsky-Korsakov | Ivan the Terrible (1873); Snow Maiden (1881); Golden Cockerel (1907). |
M. P. Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov (1874); Khovanshchina (1886). |
J. Strauss, Jnr ., | Die Fledermaus (1874); Der Zigeunerbaron (1885). |
E. Chabrier | L’Etoile (1877). C. Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah (1877). |
P. I. Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (1878); The Queen of Spades (1890); Iolanta (1891). |
L. Delibes | Lakmé (1883). C. Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (1902). |
J. Massenet | Manon (1884); Werther (1892); Thais (1894). |
B. Smetana | The Bartered Bride (1886). A. Borodin Prince Igor (1890). |
P. Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana (1890). R. Leoncavallo I Pagliacci (1892). |
G. Puccini | La Bohème (1895); Madame Butterfly (1900); Tosca (1904); Turandot (1926). |
F. Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur (1902). G. Charpentier Louise (1900). |
L. Janáček | Jenufa (1904); The Cunning Little Vixen (1924); Katya Kabanova (1921). |
R. Strauss | Salome (1905); Elektra (1909); Der Rosenkavalier (1911); Ariadne auf Naxos (1912); Intermezzo (1924); Arabella (1933); Capriccio (1942). |
B. Bartok | Bluebeard’s Castle (1911). M. de Falla La Vida Breve (1915). |
M. Ravel | L’Heure Espagnole (1911); L’Enfant et les sortilèges (1925). |
S. Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges (1919); War and Peace (1945). |
P. Hindemith | Cardillac (1926); Harmonie der Welt (1957). |
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