Keywords: Cosimo I de' Medici - Letter to Piero Vettori - 1549-04-20.jpg Cosimo I de ™ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Humanist Piero Vettori 1499 “1585 According to the date at the end written xx di Aprile 1549 While the letter was obviously written by some professional writer as usual in that time the signature at the end seems authentic http //www rarebooksandautographs com/fair accessed 2010-09-22 Cosimo I de' Medici 1549-04-20 As usual on Wikimedia Commons we assume that the letter itself is in public domain due to its age Cosimo died in 1574 and that therefore a simple scan of this letter is in public domain too because a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original does not justify any exclusive legal rights See the license section below Cosimo I de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 1549 texts Italian manuscripts Signatures of Tuscan monarchs Letters of Italy Humanistische Kursive PD-old-100 ImageNote 1 377 429 393 121 800 630 2 Authentic signature of Cosimo I de ™ Medici ImageNoteEnd 1 |