This was a royal, not an inquisitorial act. The Annals escaped the Spanish Index.
[1433] Vicente de la Fuente, Hist. eccles. de España, III, 269 (Ed. 1855).
[1434] Alcubilla, Códigos antiguos, p. 1591.—Llorente, Coleccion Diplomática, p. 22.—Librorum post Indicem Clementis VIII prohib. Decreta, pp. 165-66 (Romæ, 1632).—Llorente, Hist. crít., Cap. xxv, n. 119.
[1435] Archivo de Simancas, Gracia y Justicia, Leg. 621, fol. 73.
[1436] Ibidem, Inq., Lib. 20, fol. 255.
My copy of the Tractatus illustrates a method of satisfying the conscience in possessing prohibited books, at least in Italy. It is of the fourth edition, Lyons, 1669, and a former owner, the Dottore Benedetto Gargdoni, has written on the fly-leaf, over his name, “Animo obtinendi licentiam.”
[1437] Catalani de Secretario Congr. Indicis, pp. 41, 52, 63.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 20, fol. 255.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 8, n. 20, fol. 260.
[1438] Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo.... Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mundo, Tolemaico e Copernicano Fiorenza, 1632.
[1439] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 20, fol. 255.
[1440] Llorente, Coleccion Diplomática, p. 23.