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Venetian Decree on Pre-publication Censorship, Venice (1527)

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Venetian Decree on Pre-publication Censorship, Venice (1527), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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                  Die xxix Januarii: 1527

Per la Licentia, che facilmente ognun ha de stampar Libri in questa Nostra Cita, se vede qualche volta
ussir in stampa opera disoneste, et de mala natura; al che è da metter sufficiente ordine, et però:
L’andarà parte, che da mo in futurum non se possa stampar, nè stampata dar fuora alcuna opera, over
libro da novo composto et non più stampato, si verso come prosa, et in qualunque Idioma se voglia, se
prima non li sarà permesso da i capi de questo conseio, per termination de man loro sottoscripta; la
qual permission però, et termination se habia à far dapoi che essa opera sarà sta veduta da do persone
almeno, a cui parerà à loro capi de commetter che la debano veder et examiner, et referir la opinion sua
in scriptis cum juramento: Ne altramente far se possi, sotto pena de perder le opera stampate, et de
altratanto per pena, la qual sia delo inventor; et cussi sotto la pena soprascritta non se possa vender in
questa Cità alcuna opera composta da novo, etiam stampata fuora da questa terra senza licentia deli
capi di questo conseio, modo ut supra. Dechiarando, che alcun non possi stampar libro alcuno da novo
composto, over non più stampato, se ‘l non vedera la licentia in scriptis, come è detto de sopra. Et
lordine presente publicar se deba in Rialto à noticia de ciascuno.



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