Italy
Primary Sources on Copyright 1450-1900. List of Documents : Italy
Date | Document | |
1 | 1469 | Printing patent to Johannes of Spyer |
2 | 1474 | Statute regulating industrial brevets |
2.1 | 1421 | Filippo Brunelleschi’s patent petition |
3 | 1486 | Privilege to the author (Marc Antonio Sabellico) |
4 | 1487 | Papal bull Inter multiplices |
5 | 1498 | Printing patent for music notation to Ottaviano Petrucci |
6 | 1503 | Aldo Manuzio, Monitum in Lugdunenses typographos Venezia, 16 III 1503 |
6.1 | 1502 | Aldo Manuzio’s complaint against counterfeit |
6.2 | 1516 | Filippo Giunti’s petition for the removal of a sentence of banishment, following Aldo-Giunti lawsuit |
7 | 1504- | Dürer, The Betrothal of the Virgin, woodcut |
7.1 | 1511 | Raimondi, The Betrothal of the Virgin, engraving |
7.2 | 1568 | Giorgio Vasari, ‘Life of Marcantonio Bolognese’, in Lives of the artists(Florence, 1568) |
7.3 | 1516 | Ugo da Carpi’s patent for his technique of chiaroscuro printing. |
8 | 1515 | Petition by Lodovico Ariosto for exclusive right to print and sell his Orlando Furioso |
9 | 1516 | Appointment of the first literary censor Andrea Navagero (CX) |
10 | 1517 | The earliest decree on press affairs |
11 | 1527 | General censorship law establishing obligatory pre-publication censorship (CX) |
12 | 1531 | Pope Clement VII’s privilege to Antonio Blado for works by Machiavelli |
12.1 | 1531 | Pope Clement VII’s privilege to Antonio Giunti for works by Machiavelli |
13 | 1545 | Press reform regulating author-printer relations and censorial revision of books by the Refformatori dello Studio di Padova |
14 | 1545 | License granted to Antonio Catalano for his new method of teaching grammar at school |
15 | 1549 | Decree of the CX establishing the Guild of Printers and Booksellers |
15.1 | 1549 | Mariegola (Excerpts from the Minute Book of the Guild of Printers and Booksellers) |
16 | 1596 | Decree on the Motu proprio controversy (Senato Terra) |
17 | Author – printer contract (?) | |
17.1 | 1590 | Giovanni Fratta, Discourse On the Dedication of Books (Venice, 1590) |
18 | 1603 | Decree for the Privileges for New and Reprinted Books |
19 | 1613 | Paolo Sarpi, Memorial On the Office of the Inquisition |
19.1 | 1615 | Paolo Sarpi, Memorial on the Prohibition of Books |
20 | 1781 | The sentence of the Riformatori dello Studio pronounced in the case of Nicolò Pezzana v. Senate, in favour of the author. |
20.1 | 1781 | Declaration of the Consiglio di Stato del Re [Francese] 30 Aug 1777 on the freedom of artistic creation, and other related documents from ASV, Riformatori dello Studio di Padova, f. 365, Fasc. Pezzana Stampa, pp. 46-16. |