Editing Conrad Gessner (section)

==== Censorship ====
There was extreme religious tension at the time that {{Lang|la|Historia animalium}} came out. Under [[Pope Paul IV]] the [[Pauline Index]] felt that the religious convictions of an author contaminated all his writings.<ref name=DAmico46/> Since Gessner was a Protestant his works were included in this index of prohibited books. Even though religious tensions were high, Gessner maintained friendships on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide. In fact, Catholic booksellers in Venice protested the Inquisition's blanket ban on Gessner's books, and some of his work was eventually allowed after it had been "cleaned" of its doctrinal errors.{{sfn|Scott|2017}}