 Savonarola's psalm meditations were among the few works of his not to be placed on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum", the Church's list of banned books, by Pope Paul IV in 1559, during the height of the Counter-Reformation.While the Dominican order was successful in preventing "all" of Savonarola's works being placed on the "Index", the Church was able to shut down all printing of them in Italy after 1559, including "Infelix ego.