Chopin Frédéric

Chopin Frédéric — marelibri

De Privilegiis Rusticorum: Lib III O Fortunatos Nimium Sua Si.

1575réf. 575041575. Paris 1575. 1st ed. Paris 1575. 1st ed. The First Modern Treatise on Rural Rights: Rene Choppin's Landmark 1575 Agrarian Law Choppin Rene 1537-1606. De Privilegiis Rusticorum: Lib. III. O Fortunatos Nimium Sua Si Bona Norint Agricolas Gnauosque Senes Extrema per Illos Iustitia Excedens Terris Vestigia Fecit. Paris: Apud Nicolaum Chesneau 1575 colophon: 29 November 1574. First Edition. Quarto 9" x 6-1/2"; 22.86 x 16.51 cm. xvi 248 24 pp. Contemporary limp vellum early calligraphic title to spine ties lacking. Negligible light shelfwear text block partially detached from binding. Woodcut printer device to title page woodcut decorated initials. Some toning light dampspotting and early annotations to a few leaves. A very good unsophisticated copy in its original binding. $1500. First edition of this pioneering and exceptionally rare treatise on the legal rights customary protections and social standing of the early modern rural peasantry. Rene Choppin a celebrated avocat at the Parlement of Paris was a central figure in the 16th-century "Gallican" legal tradition. Alongside contemporary jurists like Jean Bodin and Jean Bacquet Choppin worked to synthesize Roman jurisprudence canon law and regional French customary law into a cohesive national framework under royal authority. In De Privilegiis Rusticorum Choppin produced the first systematic legal work dedicated to agrarian rights. Here "privileges" refers not to aristocratic perks but to statutory legal safeguards designed to protect agricultural workers from predatory creditors excessive taxation and unlawful land seizure. Choppin framed rural labor as vital to the stability of the state arguing that the protection of farmers was essential to national prosperity. The title directly incorporates lines from Virgil's Georgics "O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint agricolas." illustrating the Renaissance Humanist effort to reconcile classical literary ideals of pastoral life with the grit of 16th-century legal reality. Choppin argued that Justice having abandoned the corrupt cities left her final traces among the rural working class. The Biographie Universelle highlights the treatise for its enduring scholarly weight noting that it "deserves notice for the singularity of its subject" and its "profound research." Rare in commerce and in in. unknown