PIUS IV (Pope). Motus Propius Contra Mercatores huis almae Urbis exercentes, Cambia sicca, usuraria & illicita. Rome: Antonio Blado, 1564.

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PIUS IV (Pope). Motus Propius Contra Mercatores huis almae Urbis exercentes, Cambia sicca, usuraria & illicita. Rome: Antonio Blado, 1564.

2° (296 x 200mm). 2 leaves. Recent paper wrappers. Papal letter complaining about the avarice of merchants in Rome, excessive usury and unfair moneychanging, threatening excommunication and other punishments.

With: 2 Bulls by Pope Paul III. Rome: Blado, 1548. 8°. The first imposing tithes of two tenths in the whole of Italy to pay for the wars against the Turks; the other distributing the benefit of tithes and imposing a tax of one-twentieth on all goods belonging to Jews in Italy. (3)

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