[BOLOGNA.]

£1,800 · Offered by Sokol Books

A remarkably well-preserved and clean copy of this Bolognese edict a rare survival of C16 legal ephemera addressing a major issue of public order: the flight of bandits and prisoners sentenced to capital punishment. The outcome of negotiations between Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, and Cardinal Caetani, emissary of the Pope in Bologna, the edict struck an agreement by which no bandits or fugitive prisoners sentenced to capital punishment should find a safe place either in the Bologna territory (within the Papal States) or in neighbouring Ferrara; if any such criminals were discovered in either territory in which they were not resident, they could be punished by proxy. No safe-conducts would be granted by either state and those already granted should be revoked.

• Binding: Hardcover

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