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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
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As we prevent anyone on penalty of excommunication in our lands, verily, as well as the loss
of books which must be applied for by you, a penalty must be incurred as often as any they
might contravene, so that no one other than the said Antonio may presume without your
consent to print or sell to be printed or have for sale the said books of Histories and on the
Prince having been calculated for ten years from the date of the present. And as we also
decree to every and each Governor of these places of our ecclesiastical State and beyond it to
all venerable brothers inhabitants of our Archbishoprics and Bishoprics and to their vicars in
spiritual as well as temporal realm that, as often as they are asked by you and by your name,
they act in a way that the present letter to you is acknowledged as inviolable, along with the
aforesaid letter of ours conceded to the said Antonio, and to others, whoever they may be,
who may be opposed but who do not act in opposition.
We also wish that a full pledge of faith be kept in judgment and beyond in the same manner,
even if original letters should be produced, with the below-signed who have been presently
taken up by the hand of the public Notary and vouchsafed by the signet of the person as
constituted in ecclesiastical dignity.
Given at Rome, 20 December 1531.
With a pledge held by D. Treasury because S. D. N. wanted this Brief to be granted or that it
should be granted.
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 constitutisspiritualibus 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.
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
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As we prevent anyone on penalty of excommunication in our lands, verily, as well as the loss
of books which must be applied for by you, a penalty must be incurred as often as any they
might contravene, so that no one other than the said Antonio may presume without your
consent to print or sell to be printed or have for sale the said books of Histories and on the
Prince having been calculated for ten years from the date of the present. And as we also
decree to every and each Governor of these places of our ecclesiastical State and beyond it to
all venerable brothers inhabitants of our Archbishoprics and Bishoprics and to their vicars in
spiritual as well as temporal realm that, as often as they are asked by you and by your name,
they act in a way that the present letter to you is acknowledged as inviolable, along with the
aforesaid letter of ours conceded to the said Antonio, and to others, whoever they may be,
who may be opposed but who do not act in opposition.
We also wish that a full pledge of faith be kept in judgment and beyond in the same manner,
even if original letters should be produced, with the below-signed who have been presently
taken up by the hand of the public Notary and vouchsafed by the signet of the person as
constituted in ecclesiastical dignity.
Given at Rome, 20 December 1531.
With a pledge held by D. Treasury because S. D. N. wanted this Brief to be granted or that it
should be granted.
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
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.