Four works by the historian Carlo Sigonio (1523-1584) were made the target of censures by ecclesiastical authorities in the early 1580s. His works were never put on the index of prohibited books, but the censures reveal the mentality and concerns of the censors more clearly than any other surviving documentation from this period. This article examines the censures directed against Sigonio’s historical investigation of Old Testament history. By using sources such as the Greek text of the Old Testament, Philo, and Josephus, Sigonio committed the error of Judaizing.

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• McCuaig, W., (2025), "The Tridentine Ruling on the Vulgate and Ecclesiastical Censorship in the 1580s", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: McCuaig, William. "The Tridentine Ruling on the Vulgate and Ecclesiastical Censorship in the 1580s." Renaissance and Reformation 30 (3): 2010. 43-55. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v30i3.11506. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.