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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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