Banned For Heresy
Lazarillo de Tormes was banned by the Spanish Crown and included in the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition; this was at least in part due to the book's anti-clerical flavour. In 1573, the Crown allowed circulation of a version which omitted Chapters 4 and 5 and assorted paragraphs from other parts of the book. (An unabridged version did not appear in Spain until the nineteenth century.) It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French (1560), English (1576), Dutch (1579) after Flanders came under Dutch rule (1578), German (1617), and Italian (1622).
Spanish first edition title pages in 1554 of Lazarillo de Tormes.
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Burgos, Juan de Junta
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Medina del Campo, Hermanos Del Canto
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Alcalá de Henares, Salcedo
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Antwerp, Martín Nucio
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