
Panoramica del Riassunto di Areopagitica
Prima che la censura diventasse una questione scottante, l'"Areopagitica" di Milton (1644) sfidò audacemente le restrizioni del Parlamento sulle pubblicazioni. Questo pamphlet rivoluzionario - citato insieme a "Sulla libertà" di Mill - stabilì le fondamenta intellettuali per la libertà di parola che avrebbe in seguito ispirato Blake, Wordsworth e i moderni principi democratici.
Temi chiave del Riassunto di Areopagitica
- freedom of press
- intellectual liberty
- opposition to censorship
- marketplace of ideas
- licensing of books
Le migliori citazioni dal Riassunto di Areopagitica
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Personaggi del Riassunto di Areopagitica
- John MiltonAuthor, poet, and defender of free speech
- GalileoAging, blind astronomer met by Milton in Italy
- Mary PowellMilton's first wife whose departure sparked crisis
- Hugo GrotiusScholar and luminary met during Milton's tour
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