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October 93
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 this nourishing city, has contrived and layed out a new representation of the city of Rome, and has engraved it in bronze tablets, not without his own great expense and 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 another’s labor snatch the fruit from his industry, are willing to provide for an indemnity for Antonio himself, and to honor him with the favor of special grace,

[9-20] We 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 otherwise in any way transfer them to another, under whatever excuse or affected pretext, publicly or secretly, in any places or nations, 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, and also whatever other plans of places and of the city of this kind, which he will have devised, and arranged to be engraved in bronze tablets. Therefore we strictly restrain and forbid each and all other painters, and whatever printers and booksellers and other persons


    

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Clean Privilege
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Octobris 93
Clemens Papa VIII
1. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Cum sicut accepimus dilectus filius Antonius Tempe=
2. stus Laicus Florentinus in hac Alma Urbe Pictor, novam descriptionem urbis
3. Romae, prout nunc iacet, invenerit, et delineauerit, illamque non sine sua magna
4. impensa, ac aliquot annorum labore aeneis tabulis inciderit, aliasque eiusdem
5. generis locorum, et Urbium descriptiones invenire et incidere intendat; nos
6. ne aliqui propterea ex alieno labore lucrum quarentes, ipsi Antonio, ne
7. eius industriae fructum subripiant, et alias eius indemnitati consulere,
8. ipsumque specialis gratia favore prosequi volentes: Motu proprio et ex certa
9. nostra scientia, eidem Antonio, quod infra decennium ab hac die numerandum
10. nulli prorsus Hominum cuiuscunque conditionis, sit vel fuerit, praeter ipsum
11. Antonium, ac eius haeredes, vel ius aut causam ab eo pro tempore habentes
12. dictam Urbis Romae descriptionem in quacunque maiori, vel paulo minori
13. forma, vel quoque modo diversa ab ea forma, qua hucusque imprimi consuevit,
14. nec non quascunque alias eiusdem generis locorum et Urbium descriptiones, quas
15. ipse invenerit, et aeneis tabulis incidi fecerit, imprimere, seu imprimi fa=
16. cere, vel forsan impressa, venales tenere, ac proponere, aut alias quomodolibet
17. in alium transferre, sub quovis praetextu, vel quaesito colore publice vel
18. occulte, ubivis locorum et gentium possint, tenore praesentium concedimus, et
19. indulgemus. Districtius propterea inhibentes ac interdicentes omnibus et
20. singulis aliis Pictoribus, ac quibusvis impressoribus, et bibliopolis, aliisque personis
ubicunque