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Documents for Italy (* indicates core document)

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

1501:   Vergilius

1501:   Le Cose volgari.

1502:   Aldus Manutius's Petition against Counterfeiters

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

1503:   Scotto v. Benalio

1503:   Durante v. Torresani

1504: * A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer plagiarized by Marcantonio Raimondi

1506:   "Lamentationum Jeremie Prophete"

1515: * Ariosto's Printing Privilege

1516: * Appointment of Andrea Navagero as Literary Censor

1516:   Ugo da Carpi's Patent

1517: * Venetian Decree on Press Affairs

1526:   Papal and Venetian Privileges for Sigismondo Fanti's "Triompho di Fortuna"

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

1532:   Antonio Blado's edition of Machiavelli's "History of Florence"

1534:   Melchiore Sessa'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

1740:   Venetian Decree Against Unauthorized Printing of Songs

1780: * "Pezzana e Consorti" case: supporting documents

1780:   Venetian Reprint of the French Decree of 30 August 1777, on the duration of privileges

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

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