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Italian Statuti: Views from a North American Curator

Widener, Michael
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This paper was presented at the conference organized by the De Statutis Society, "La libertà di decidere: da Cento a Cento, 1993-2024; Trent'anni di studi sugli statuti," June 1, 2024, in Cento, Italy. It describes the origins and development of the Yale Law Library's Italian Statute Collection, the largest collection outside of Italy. It discusses the need for an English-language guide to the genre, and offers suggestions on the value of Italian city statutes for the history of legal literature and for the growing field of book history.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18422