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Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (1593)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 208 F. 74

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Petition from and Privilege granted to Antonio Tempesta for a map of Rome (1593), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Draft Privilege
[75 r]

Pope Clement VIII
[1-8] For the future memory of the matter. Since, just as we have heard it, the beloved son Antonio Tempesta, a Florentine lay painter in bountiful city {of Rome}, has contrived [to] [and delineated] [has engraved it in bronze tablets] a new plan [XXX] of the city of Rome as it now lies, and has engraved it in bronze tablets with his own great expense and with a labor of some years, and [since he intends to contrive and engrave other plans of places and cities of this kind]; we therefore, lest others seeking profit from foreign labor snatch the fruit from his diligence, willing to provide for an indemnity [XXX] for Antonio himself, and to bestow him with the favor of special grace,

[8-20] grant and indulge, in the tenor of the present decrees, to the same Antonio by motu proprio and from our certain knowledge, that for a decade to be counted from this day, absolutely no men of whatever situation they are or may be, except for Antonio himself and his heirs or those holding cause and responsibility from them for a time, may print or arrange to be printed, or perhaps hold or display the printed things for sale, or indeed to give it away in return for something or as a gift or otherwise in any way transfer them to another, under whatever excuse or affected pretext, publicly or secretly, in any places or nations, and if it happens that the said plan is reformed by our apostolic authority at whatever time the said plan of the city of Rome in whatever form greater or smaller by a little, or different in any way from that form, in which it has been accustomed to be printed up until now, or anything else concerning to him [and also whatever other plans of places and of cities of this kind, which he will have devised, and arranged to be engraved in bronze tablets],

[20-26] Therefore we strictly restrain and forbid each and all other painters, and whatever printers and booksellers and other persons in whatever places, [both in the bountiful city {of Rome} itself and in other lands and places subject to us] under the penalty of excommunication and latae sententiae and in the lands and to the Holy Roman Church directly or indirectly, under penalties of a sentence of excommunication far and wide, and of the loss of types and also of five hundred gold cameral ducats, to be brought in halves, one part clearly to the Apostolic treasury, the other to Antonio himself,


    

Draft Privilege
[75r]

Clemens Papa VIII
1. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Cum sicut accepimus dilectus filius Antonius
2. Tempestus Laicus Florentinus, in hac alma Urbe Pictor, novam
3. descriptionem [XXX] Urbis Romae prout nunc iacet [ad] invenerit, [et delineaverit,] illamque [aeneis ta=]
4. [bulis inciderit] non sine sua magna impensa, ac aliquot annorum labore,
5. aeneis tabulis inciderit, [aliasque eiusdem generis descriptionis locorum, et Urbium descriptiones invenire, et incidere intendat]; Nos propterea ne aliqui ex alieno
6. labore lucrum quarentes, ipsi Antonio, ne eius industriae fructum
7. subripiant et alias [XXX] eius indemnitati consulere, ipsumque specialis
8. gratia favore prosequi volentes. Motu proprio, et ex certa scientia
9. nostra eidem Antonio, quod infra decennium ab hac die numerandum
10. nulli prorsus hominum cuiuscunque conditionis, sit vel fuerit, praeter
11. ipsum Antonium, ac eius haeredes, vel ius, aut causam ab eo pro
12. tempore habentes, dictam Urbis Romae descriptionem, in quacunque maiori, vel
13. paulo minori forma, vel quoquo modo diversa ab ea forma, quae
14. hucusque imprimi consuevit, [nec non quascunque alias eiusdem generis locorum et Urbium descriptiones, quas ipse invenerit, et aeneis tabulis incidi fecerit], seu quidpiam aliud ad eum spectans
15. imprimere, seu imprimi facere, vel forsan impressam, venales
16. tenere, ac proponere, seu etiam mutuo dare, vel donare aut alias
17. quomodolibet in alium transferre, sub quovis praetextu, aut quaesito colore,
18. publice vel occulte, ubivis locorum et gentium, possint, etiam si contigeret
19. aucoritate Apostolica ac nostra dictam descriptionem quovis tempore reformari
20. tenore praesentium concedimus et indulgemus. Districtius propterea
21. inhibentes ac interdicentes omnibus et singulis aliis Pictoribus, ac
22. quibusvis impressoribus et bibliopolis, aliisque personis ubicunque
23. Locorum [tam in ipsa Alma Urbe quam in aliis terris et locis nobis et] constitutis sub excommunicationis latae sententiae et in terris S.R.E.
24. mediate vel immediate subiectis, etiam sub typorum amissionis, necnon
25. quingentorum ducatorum auri de camera pro una videlicet Cameraeque Apostolicae et altera
26. medietatibus ipsii Antonio applicandorum, et per contravenientes


    

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