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GIOVANNI PAOLO OLIVA

SUPERIOR GENERAL

OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS The Jesuits.

Since the work entitled The Tower of Babel, composed by Father ATHANASIUS KIRCHER, a priest of our Society, has been reviewed by several theologians of the same Society and they have approved it for publication, we grant the authority for it to be sent to the press, if it shall so seem fit to those whom it concerns. Given at Rome, February 10, 1672.

GIOVANNI PAOLO OLIVA. (L. S.) original: "L. S." stands for "Locus Sigilli," meaning "Place of the Seal."

It may be printed,

FRIAR HYACINTH, Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace. The Master of the Sacred Palace was the Pope's primary theologian and official censor of books in Rome.

A small, detailed woodcut or engraving of a leafy shrub or small tree, possibly an olive branch or young tree representing the name "Oliva" (the Superior General), positioned in the lower center of the page.