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Core documents for Italy

1469: Johannes of Speyer's Printing Monopoly

1474: Venetian Statute on Industrial Brevets

1486: Marco Antonio Sabellico's Printing Privilege

1498: Ottaviano Petrucci's Music Patent

1503: Aldus Manutius's Warning against the Printers of Lyon

1504: A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi

1515: Ariosto's Printing Privilege

1516: Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor

1517: Venetian Decree on Press Affairs

1527: Venetian Decree on Pre-publication Censorship

1531: Antonio Blado's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1531: Bernardo Giunti's privilege for Machiavelli's works

1545: Venetian Decree on Author-Printer Relations

1545: Antonio Catalano's Teaching Licence

1549: Decree Establishing the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers

1549: Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers

1568: Giorgio Vasari, Life of Marcantonio of Bologna and Other Engravers of Prints

1590: Giovanni Fratta's "On the Dedication of Books"

1596: Motu proprio controversy

1603: Venetian Decree on Privileges for New Books and Reprints

1780: "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents

1781: "Pezzana e Consorti" case: counter-petition and rulings

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