"The High Priests despised the common interest of the people, and they look to the same. They consolidated the state itself and despotism in the disease and ignorance of the people".
Livello against the High Priests (Anonymous, 1810)
• A political and ideological manifesto for the future of the Balkan peoples.
• A violent anti-clerical work, published here for the first time, that describes in a structured and with exceptional knowledge the hoarding practices of the Orthodox clerical officials at the expense of the Greek people.
• A scathing book that excoriates the practices of the Orthodox metropolis of Adrianople, due to the waste of huge sums on projects of political consolidation, but almost nothing on projects of education.
What is the relationship that connects the above three seemingly disparate writings? Two of the three were burned in the courtyard of the Patriarchate of Constantinople by order of Gregory V, while the third almost disappeared from the face of the earth.
"The forbidden books of 1821" are a collective work of three texts, which were written over a period of twenty-two years, from 1797 to 1819. It is the "New Political Administration" (Vienna, 1797) by Rigas Velestinlis, the " Livello against the High Priests", written by an anonymous author in Smyrna in 1810, and "Crito's Reflections", also published by an anonymous author in Paris in 1819. The study of these three "forbidden" works, once again confirms the fact that the triptych Freedom, Knowledge and Right Reason, was treated pre-revolutionary with great hostility by the highest leadership of the Church, whose role and action are imperative to be re-evaluated by the younger generations.
The book is prefaced by the renowned emeritus professor of History at the Ionian University, Petros Pizanias, while at the end the epitome of Dr. of History, Thanasis Gallou, dedicated to the importance of the first edition of "Livellus" in Greek literature
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