# Primary Sources on Copyright - Record Viewer
Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works, Vatican (1531)

Source: scanned from the manuscript held in the Vatican Secret Archives: ASVat, Armadio 40; tomo 37, c. 297r-v, doc. nr 573.

Citation:
Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works, Vatican (1531), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

Back | Record | Images | No Commentaries
Translation only | Transcription only | Show all | Bundled images as pdf
2 transcripted pages
Chapter 1 Page 1

[...]

Dilectis filiis Heredibus Phylippi Iunctae Civibus Floren.

Dilecti filii salutem. Exponi nobis fecistis quod cum nos
nuper per alias nostra in forma brevis litteras concesserimus dilecto filio
Antonio Blado de Asula impressori librorum in Alma Urbe
libros quondam Nicolai Machiavelli dum viveret civis Florentini tam histo-
riarum, et de principe quam super eius historicis discursibus
tunc impressuro ne quis alius preter eum dictos omnes libros ad decen-
nium imprimere, seu impressos vendere aut venales habere,sine ipsius
Antoni licentia presumeret, aliter poenas in dictis nostris litteris contentas
incurreret, vos propterea qui voluntatem et consensum heredum ipsius
Nicolai Machiavelli habetis, quorum consensum dictus Antonius nun-
quam habuit libros Historiarum et de principe ac discursuum sopradictos,
imprimere non audetis.Quamobren humiliter nobis supplicari fecistis
ut vobis licentiam de consensu heredum dicti quondam Nicolai libros eius
historiarum et de principe ac discursuum huiusmodi Florentiae imprimendi concedere de
benignitate apostolica dignaremur. Nos considerantes aequum esse ut libri dicti Nicolai et in eius
Patria et ad voluntatem suorum heredum imprimantur \attendentesque dictum Antonium iam pro maiori
parte libros discursuum quos impressit vendere hactenus potuisse, vestris huiusmodi/ supplicationibus
inclinati vobis ut historiarum et de Principe ac discursuum
libros de consensu heredum dicti Nicolai Florentiae tamen imprimere
et impressos ubilibet vendere et venales habere libere et
licite et sine ullius poenae incursu valeatis auctoritate apostolica
tenore presentium concedimus et indulgemus. Inhibentes ubique
sub excommunicatione in terris vere nostris etiam sub amissionis librorum vobis





Chapter 1 Page 2


applicandorum poena, toties quoties contravenerint incur-
renda, ne quis preter dictum Antonium dictos historiarum
et de principe libros ad decem annos a data presentium
computandos imprimere aut impressos vendere seu
venales habere sine vestro consensu presumat. Madates
etiam universis et singulis locorum status nostri ecclesiastici Gu-
bernatoribus et extra illum omnibus venerabilibus fratribus Archiepiscopis
et Episcopis ubilibet constitutis spiritualibus et temporalibus> ut quotiens a vobis
aut vestro nomine requirentur faciant vobis presentes
litteras inviolabiliter observari, \praedictis litteris nostris
dicto Antonio concessis ceterisque contrariis/ non obstantibus
quibuscumque. Volumus etiam quoad presentium transumptis
manu Notarii publici subscriptis et sigillo personae
in dignitate ecclesiastica constitutae munitis, plena fides
in iudicio et extra perinde habeatur, ac si litterae originales
exhiberentur.
Datum Romae xx Decem. 1531 a.o 9.

Habita fide a D. Thesaur. quod S.D.N. velit hoc Breve concedi vel concedendum.

Hier. Audit.


Blosius



Postea fuit contentus S.D.N.r ad instantiam D. Laurentii de medicis
ut expediretur hoc modo.


Transcription by: Joanna Kostylo

    

Our Partners

Copyright statement

You may copy and distribute the translations and commentaries in this resource, or parts of such translations and commentaries, in any medium, for non-commercial purposes as long as the authorship of the commentaries and translations is acknowledged, and you indicate the source as Bently & Kretschmer (eds), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (www.copyrighthistory.org).

You may not publish these documents for any commercial purposes, including charging a fee for providing access to these documents via a network. This licence does not affect your statutory rights of fair dealing.

Although the original documents in this database are in the public domain, we are unable to grant you the right to reproduce or duplicate some of these documents in so far as the images or scans are protected by copyright or we have only been able to reproduce them here by giving contractual undertakings. For the status of any particular images, please consult the information relating to copyright in the bibliographic records.

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) is co-published by Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK and CREATe, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 10 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK