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In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as “heritage” – that is, antiquities, monuments, and paintings considered important for their country’s splendour. These early protocols have had a substantial impact on the development of legal and aesthetic approaches to heritage protection in recent times.In this volume, legislation is explored from both a legal and art-historical perspective in order to understand how cultural, political, and social factors influenced the introduction of the first systems for safeguarding “precious artefacts” in early modern Europe. By comparing concepts and practices developed in different states, the narrative tracks down the origins of legislation for heritage protection, shedding light on the gradual development of new definitions of “antiquity”, “artwork”, and “monument” in the laws issued between the 1400s and 1700s.In the second part, the transcriptions of these regulations are presented together with their English translations: the original texts were in early modern Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, German, and Latin. Such a systematic apparatus offers a robust research instrument to scholars and academics worldwide, also constituting a fascinating read for broader audiences interested in the history of heritage protection.

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Chiara Mannoni is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie senior fellow at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (grant: LawLove-837857). Her research project aims to uncover the origins of the heritage legal protection, by investigating the laws issued to preserve antiquities, monuments, and paintings in 15th- to 18th-century Europe (https://pric.unive.it/projects/law-love/home). Chiara obtained her BA. and MA. in art history at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, her 2nd lev. MA in conservation and management of cultural heritage at the University of Siena, and her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Auckland (2017). She was researcher for the Italian Ministry PRIN projects in Museology and History of Restoration in 2010-2012, and obtained fellowships and research grants in Italy, Greece, Australia, and New Zealand. Her first monograph “Artistic canons and legal protection. Developing policies to preserve, administer and trade artworks in nineteenth-century Rome and Athens” has been published by the Max-Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. From September 2022, Chiara will be tenured researcher and lecturer at the University of Basilicata – Matera. Amedeo Ceresa Genet is a free-lance Italian-American translator and language coach. Since 2009, Amedeo has worked as an interpreter, proofreader, and professional translator in Italy and the United States. His specific interests are translation techniques, sectorial languages, grammatical and semantic instruments of interpretation, and comparative phraseology applied to philosophy, history, and the arts. Currently, he is working on translating a series of classics from Anglo-Saxon literature.

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