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Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549)
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Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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That once our Guild is assembled, it being
understood that it is to count as a full and
perfect assembly when two thirds of the
total number of matriculated members have
come together, our syndics must take an oath before each and
everyone of the congregation, that they will elect and choose
the best, most competent and useful persons for our Guild.
After that each one of the assembled members is entitled to
nominate someone in accordance with his conscience, and
all the suggested names will be put in the ballot-box, and one
name will be extracted at random from the latter during each
round, whereby this ballot must be secret so that all the
nominated persons are put in the ballot, and afterwards the
ballot-boxes are to be opened, and those who have scored
two thirds of the ballot or upwards are understood to have
been elected and appointed. Those two members who have
truly obtained two thirds of the vote but came just under the
aforesaid six Council members are understood to hold
honorary positions, and they must take the place of any
of the elected officials who are unable to come to meetings
of the Guild because of some accident. The Prior, the
Counsellors and six Council members are to take up their
offices on the 1st of March and serve until the last day
of February, and so on every year.
FOURTH STATUTE
That in the same manner and procedure
two Syndics are to be elected by ballot,
who shall always be present, or at least
one of them, at all the ballots which are held in our Guild,
and no ballot will be considered to be valid without the
presence of one of them,
Che ridutta che sarà l'Università, la
qual s'intendi ridutta a numero perfet=
to quando saranno ridutti li doi terzi
di tutto il numero de matricolati, li sin=
dici nostri debbano dar giuramento a cadauno &
delli congregati di dover per sua conscienzia eleg=
gere, et voler li megliori, piu sufficienti, et utili alla
nostra Università. Di poi sia in libertà di cadauno
delli ridutti nominar uno secondo la sua conscientia,
et tutti li nominati siano inbossolati, et uno per volta
per sorte estratto et ballottato, la qual ballotatione
debba esser secretta per fino che tutti li nominati saran=
no stati ballottati, et poi si habbino ad aprir li bossoli
et quelli che haveranno scosso piu ballotte dalli dui
terzi in fuso se intendano eletti et rimasti. Li dui ve=
ramente che dalli dui terzi in fuso haveranno piu
ballotte sotto li predetti sei di Zonta s'intendano
di rispetto, et intrar debbano in luogo di quelli che
per qualche accidente non potessero ridursi. Li quasi
Priore, Conseglieri et di Zonta entrar debbano nell'
officio il primo di Marso, et finire a di ultimo Fe=
braro, et cosi di anno in anno.
CAPITOLO IV
Che nel medesimo modo et forma si=
ano eletti a bossoli et ballotte dui Sin=
dici, li quali siano sempre assistente,
o al meno uno di essi, a tutte le ballottationi che si
faranno nella nostra Università, et non si possa bal=
lottare [???] [???] senza la presentia di uno di lo[ro
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Citation:
Statutes of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers, Venice (1549), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org
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That once our Guild is assembled, it being
understood that it is to count as a full and
perfect assembly when two thirds of the
total number of matriculated members have
come together, our syndics must take an oath before each and
everyone of the congregation, that they will elect and choose
the best, most competent and useful persons for our Guild.
After that each one of the assembled members is entitled to
nominate someone in accordance with his conscience, and
all the suggested names will be put in the ballot-box, and one
name will be extracted at random from the latter during each
round, whereby this ballot must be secret so that all the
nominated persons are put in the ballot, and afterwards the
ballot-boxes are to be opened, and those who have scored
two thirds of the ballot or upwards are understood to have
been elected and appointed. Those two members who have
truly obtained two thirds of the vote but came just under the
aforesaid six Council members are understood to hold
honorary positions, and they must take the place of any
of the elected officials who are unable to come to meetings
of the Guild because of some accident. The Prior, the
Counsellors and six Council members are to take up their
offices on the 1st of March and serve until the last day
of February, and so on every year.
That in the same manner and procedure
two Syndics are to be elected by ballot,
who shall always be present, or at least
one of them, at all the ballots which are held in our Guild,
and no ballot will be considered to be valid without the
presence of one of them,
Che ridutta che sarà l'Università, la
qual s'intendi ridutta a numero perfet=
to quando saranno ridutti li doi terzi
di tutto il numero de matricolati, li sin=
dici nostri debbano dar giuramento a cadauno &
delli congregati di dover per sua conscienzia eleg=
gere, et voler li megliori, piu sufficienti, et utili alla
nostra Università. Di poi sia in libertà di cadauno
delli ridutti nominar uno secondo la sua conscientia,
et tutti li nominati siano inbossolati, et uno per volta
per sorte estratto et ballottato, la qual ballotatione
debba esser secretta per fino che tutti li nominati saran=
no stati ballottati, et poi si habbino ad aprir li bossoli
et quelli che haveranno scosso piu ballotte dalli dui
terzi in fuso se intendano eletti et rimasti. Li dui ve=
ramente che dalli dui terzi in fuso haveranno piu
ballotte sotto li predetti sei di Zonta s'intendano
di rispetto, et intrar debbano in luogo di quelli che
per qualche accidente non potessero ridursi. Li quasi
Priore, Conseglieri et di Zonta entrar debbano nell'
officio il primo di Marso, et finire a di ultimo Fe=
braro, et cosi di anno in anno.
Che nel medesimo modo et forma si=
ano eletti a bossoli et ballotte dui Sin=
dici, li quali siano sempre assistente,
o al meno uno di essi, a tutte le ballottationi che si
faranno nella nostra Università, et non si possa bal=
lottare [???] [???] senza la presentia di uno di lo[ro