Keywords

• This essay investigates
• in the Florence of Cosimo I
• a key moment of the Catholic reformation and of the history of Inquisition around 1959
• year of the Pauline Indexâ€
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• s publication. Since recent studies have reappraised the impact of censorship in that period considering it as the expression of the Inquisitionâ€
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• s rising power and underlying the curiosity by the readers
• thereâ€
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• s no doubt that the Index had considerable effects on the Italian culture of the that time. Analysing the three works produced and directed by Vasari in Palazzo Vecchio around 1559 â€
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• Lo sportello della cassaforte di Cosimo I
• made by Vincenzo Danti
• a sculptor from Perugia
• the panel with Saturno che mutila il Cielo painted by Vasari in the Apartments of the Elements and the text of Ragionamenti â€
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• intrinsically related to Cosimo I and Palazzo Vecchio
• the article highlights the consequences of the ecclesiastical censorship on the court of Cosimo I and how Vasari himself was deeply touched by that context of cultural repression