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Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books', Venice (1590)

Source: British Library 1072.h.25

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Giovanni Fratta's 'On the Dedication of Books', Venice (1590), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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ALL'ILLUSTRE SIG.

MASSIMIGLIANO
PELLEGRINI,

GIOVANNI FRATTA.


                  Si come i volumi de' buoni Autori, ne' miglior
                  tempi, apportarono gloriosa reputatione à que'
                  personaggi, à cui erano inviati, cosi ne' presen-
                  ti giorni, vengono ad essere d'incerto honore,
                  à chiunque si dedicano, per l'obliqua dispositio-
                  ne di molti Scrittori, che non presentano l'ope-
re loro, se non sono poco men che sicuri del guiderdone, seguen-
do la parte maggiore delle mondane operationi, c'hanno'l suo esi-
to per la via dell'interesse; laqual cosa non pur scema la dignità
a gli elevati ingegni de' tempi d'hoggi, ma somministra anco lo-
ro ampia materia di ragionare, per dargli qualque necessaria, &
honesta riforma; si come avenne questa proßima State, con l'oc-
casione d'un ridotto, che si facena nel Giardino del Mag. & Eccell.
Sig. AURELIO Prandini, dove essendo venuto un giorno tra gli
altri il Sig. NICOLO Marogna, Medico & Filosofo Eccellentiß.
vi sopragionse anco M. Gio. Francesco Porta, persona d'honora-
to grido, & ne' Libri, & nelle Stampe; & per la longa pratica
havuta co' letterati, d'honesta cognitione delle scientie; come bene
comprenderà V.S. dalla lettura del presente Dialogo, da lei deside[rato


    

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