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Privilege granted to Andrea Palladio for his Four Books on Architecture, with supporting endorsement by member of the Roman Inquisition, Rome (1571)

Source: Vatican Secret Archives, Sec. Brev. Reg. 18 F. 708

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Privilege granted to Andrea Palladio for his Four Books on Architecture, with supporting endorsement by member of the Roman Inquisition, Rome (1571), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Sec. Brev. 18 F 708

 

Endorsement by Roman Inquisitor

 

[709r]

 

 

Io. F. Aurelio Schilino Inq. faccio fede d’haver fatto veder con dilig(en)tia il libro intitulato Gli quattro libri dell’architettura d’Andrea Palladio, aciò sia posto in luce. 

da S. [illeg] alli XXX Novemb. 1570

 

 

 

Handwritten Privilege

 

[708r]

 

1.              Dilecto filio Andreae Palladio Archite{c}to

2.              Dilecte fili salutem etc.  Cum sicut nobis nuper exponi fecisti

3.              tu variis laboribus, ac vigiliis quatuor libros de Archite{c}tura

4.              diligenter composueris, quos ad com{m}unem omnium utilitatem

5.              propediem in lucem edere, et imprimi facere paratus existis

6.              Quoniam autem dubitas ne aliqui sumpto inde exemplo pr{a}e-

7.              -mia merito tibi propterea debita intercipiant, nobis humiliter

8.              supplicari fecisti, ut tum laborum tuorum, tum impensarum, quas

9.              circa hoc te subire oportet, rationem habere, tibique in pr{a}emissis

10.           opportune providere de benignitate apostolica dignaremur.  Nos igitur

11.           honestam hane petitionem tuam paterno considerantes affectu

12.           ac singulos, qui ad bene agendum tendunt, quantum cum Deo

13.           possumus opportunis favoribus et gratiis prosequi cupientes,

14.           huiusmodi supplicationibus inclinati Universis et singulis Impressori-

15.           -bus ac caeteris personis ad quarum notitiam praesentes nostrae pervenerint

16.           ubilibet in toto Christianorum orbe constitutis, sub excommunicationis sententia

17.           et aliis arbitrio nostro declarandis. In nostris vero et sanctae Romanae

18.           Ecclesiae Civitatibus, Terris, et locis nobis et eidem Ecclesiae

19.           mediate, vel immediate subiectis degentibus quingentorum

20.           ducatorum auri et amissionis librorum, quos impresserint, per

21.           contrafacientes ipso facto incurrendis, et pro una Camerae

22.           apostolicae, pro reliqua autem medietatibus tibi sine aliqua con-

23.           -tradictione applicandis poenis expresse praecipiendo man-

24.           -damus, atque inhibemus, ac posthac decem annis durantibus

25.           aedita praesentorum inchoandis, et successione finiendis, dictos tuos

 

[708v]

 

26.           quatuor libros de Archite{c}tura sine licentia tua, seu a te causam

27.           habentibus excudere, imprimere, vel impressos venundare

28.           possint, sive debeant, aut quovismodo praesumant Decer-

29.           -nentes ex nunc Contrafacientes et non parentes omnes

30.           excommunicationis sententia ante dicta eo ipso ligatos, et a subditis

31.           nostris etiam pecuniariam et amissionis librorum p{o}enam ab exacto-

32.           -ribus et comissariis nostriis, ut praefertur, integre, et irrimisibiliter

33.           exigendam fore et esse, et exigi debere omnino debere.

34.           Et nihilominus quibuslibet nostris et apostolicae sedis legatis,

35.           et vicelegatis, necnon Patriarchis, Archiepiscopis, episcopis, et aliis

36.           locorum ordinariis, ac Gubernatoribus, Potestatibus, et aliis

37.           officialibus nostris harum serie pr{a}ecipimus et mandamus, ut

38.           quando et quoties pro parte tua seu a te causam habentis

39.           huiusmodi fuerint desuper requisiti, praesentes litteras nostras in locis

40.           Ecclesiarum, Civitatum, locorum et diorum suarum respective publicarum

41.           et cum effectu observari faciant, tibique et illi omnem favorem

42.           et auxilium in praemissis prompte et efficaciter praestent et

43.           exhibeant; Ac contra inobedientes per omnia opportuna iuris et

44.           facti remedia procedant; Adhibito seu invocato ad hoc

45.           si opus fuerit, auxilio brachii saecularis.  Non obstantibus Con-

46.           -stitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis, caeterisque contrariis qui-

47.           -buscumque. Caeterum quia difficile foret easdem praesentes litteras ad sin-

48.           -gula loca defferi volumus quod illarum transumptas manu Notarii

49.           publici subscriptis, et sigillo alicuius personae in Ecclesiastica

 

[712r]

 

50.           dignitate constitutis munitis, ea prorsus fides ubique

51.           adhibeatur fides, quae originalibus litteris adhiberetur

52.           si forent exhibitae vel ostensae.  Datum Romae apud

53.           Sanctum Petrum sub annulo Piscatoris Die XII Januarii

54.           1571 Anno Quinto

 

Cae. Glorierius

 

[folio #712v]

 

Januarii 1571 Anno 5

Pro Andrea Palladio Architecto

De non imprimendo quatuor

libros de Architectura per eos

compositos ad Xm

or'[ator] venetus Sorianus

 

 

 

 

 




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