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::: Works for me. (Eventually if someone finds sources convincing to everyone it could always be amended to "Most copies" or "A few copies" or "Many copies" or "About 80% of all the copies" or "522 out of 760 copies" or whatever...) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 10:50, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
::: Works for me. (Eventually if someone finds sources convincing to everyone it could always be amended to "Most copies" or "A few copies" or "Many copies" or "About 80% of all the copies" or "522 out of 760 copies" or whatever...) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 10:50, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
::::If we say 'his books were ordered to be burned', that's accurate. They were so ordered and an unestablished number were burned, but some (as far as I can tell from the sources I've read) survived because they'd been shipped to Protestant countries. There was also an issue for the Inquisition that the book had been written in Italian rather than Latin, as this made it more accessible to non-clerics. --[[User:Britinme|Britinme]] 13:13, 5 May 2007 (EDT)